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King Charles III Coronation: What You Need to Know
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2:46Now PlayingUK monarch King Charles's coronation is right around the corner. From the procession route to special event mugs, Bloomberg's Nicole Sy answers the internet’s burning questions on all things coronation.
The coronation is a religious event which celebrates the start of King Charles III’s reign. Historically, it is where a new king or queen was presented as the embodiment of the monarchy and the nation, and this ancient rite of passage has occurred in roughly the same format for 1,000 years.
The ceremony is not, however, the moment that Charles becomes king. That happened automatically upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II. Despite this, historians regard the coronation as a “foundation stone of the British state” because of its social and political purpose. “It is no empty pageant,” writes Roy Strong, the art historian who wrote the definitive book on British coronations.
“The UK has a particular form of constitution where the church and the state are linked together,” says Bob Morris, a member of University College London’s Constitution Unit. “The coronation celebrates this joint project of governance between the secular executive of the state and the Church of England, of which the king is the head.” The UK’s monarchy is the only one in Europe that still has a religious element to its coronation.
This year’s coronation will be significantly smaller than the last one, with about 2,200 guests. “There’s going to be some heroic, if not brutal, scaling down,” says Morris. His mother’s ceremony in 1953 had 8,250 attendees, requiring special scaffolding in Westminster Abbey and seating 11 tiers high in the nave. “To reduce the coronation to 2,200 people says something about the importance of Britain these days. Britain’s place in the world has changed, and it is foolish to pretend otherwise."
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