Charles will be crowned King with the Crown of St Edward and leave the Abbey wearing the Imperial State Crown
The enthronement ceremony of England’s new King Charles III is expected to be the most popular event internationally as Charles is the 41st monarch in line to the British throne and the oldest to be crowned, to date.
His official enthronement ceremony is expected on Saturday 6 May 2024 and royal aides are working around the clock to ensure everything is perfect on the big day.
The main problem with Prince Harry has been solved, after it was officially announced that the second-born, “self-appointed” son of the King will come to London for the babysitting alone, without “the black sheep” Meghan Markle.
The ritual and symbols of the Coronation and the different ceremony
Charles himself has requested a shorter and more modest ceremony. Indicatively, the king’s coronation will be limited to 2,000 guests – just a quarter of the crowd that attended his mother’s equivalent ceremony.
The religious ceremony will respect the ritual and sanctity of Westminster Abbey but has been tailored to his own tastes, with Charles personally choosing the 12 pieces to be played during the ceremony.
Lord Andrew Lloyd-Webber will write the Coronation Hymn, which the composer says will “reflect the joyous occasion”.
For the first time, the new monarch has been asked to play Greek Orthodox music at the service in honor of his late father, the Duke of Edinburgh, to be performed by the Byzantine Chant Ensemble.
The anointing with consecrated oil, the handing over of the orb and the enthronement itself.
Charles chose to retain parts of the ceremonies introduced in Queen Elizabeth’s service.
* The oil with which the King and royal consort will be anointed, which was consecrated at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem in March, will be contained in a golden container in the shape of an eagle.
* The silver-gilt coronation spoon is the oldest item used in the coronation ceremony, having been first recorded in 1349 among the emblems of St. Edward in Westminster Abbey, and is the only piece of royal goldsmiths’ work to survive from the twelfth century.
* The Monarch’s orb was made of gold in the 17th century and symbolizes Christendom. It is divided into three sections with bands of jewels, for each of the three continents known in the medieval period.
* The Sword of Secular Justice, depicting the Monarch’s role as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, the Sword of Spiritual Justice, signifying the Monarch as Defender of the Faith, and the Sword of Mercy or Curtana, which has a blunt edge, symbolizing the mercy of the Sovereign. Swords were first used at the coronation of King Charles I in 1626.
* The Sovereign’s Ring, a symbol of royal dignity, which was created for the coronation of King William IV in 1831 and all sovereigns from King Edward VII onwards have used it in their enthronement ceremonies. It consists of a sapphire with a ruby ​​cross in diamonds.
The king’s two crowns
Charles will be crowned King with the Crown of St Edward and leave the Abbey wearing the Imperial State Crown.
“The St. Edward’s Crown he is about to wear was made by the royal goldsmith, Robert Viner, in 1661,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement. Although not an exact copy of the medieval design, it follows the original in having four crosses-pattée and four fleurs-de-lis, and two arches. It consists of a solid gold bezel set with rubies, amethysts, sapphires, garnets, topazes and tourmalines.
The crown weighs almost 5 kg and has a solid gold frame and 444 stones.
The Imperial State Crown, or State Crown, is the crown that the monarch exchanges with the Crown of St. Edward at the end of the Coronation Service.
The Imperial State Crown is also used on ceremonial occasions such as the State Opening of Parliament, with the late Queen joking that it was her ‘party hat’.
The priceless series of coronation emblems from the crown jewels to be used during the religious service at the Abbey have also been confirmed.
It will include the Sovereign’s Orb, the Golden Spurs, bracelets known as Armills, two clubs, five symbolic swords, the Sovereign’s Ring, the Monarch’s Scepter with Cross and the Monarch’s Scepter with the Dove.
Queen Camilla’s crown
Camilla will be crowned with Queen Mary’s tiara which has been modified to include some of the late Queen’s jewels such as the Cullinan III, IV and V diamonds which were part of her personal jewelery collection for many years.
Elizabeth’s state-of-the-art Adamantine Jubilee carriage
In the first, short routethe royal couple will be transported from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey in the carriage used for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 – the newest royal carriage, even equipped with air conditioning.
The carriage is covered in more than 400 sheets of gold and has pieces of wood on it from the Mary Rose, the flagship of King Henry VIII’s fleet that sank in 1545.
Crowned royals will return in the 260-year-old Gold State carriage, used at every coronation. It is 7 meters long, 3.6 meters high and weighs 4 tons, hence it moves at a very slow pace.
Source :Skai
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