Queen Camillawill be taking her place beside the King.
On Tuesday, Buckingham Palace announced thatKing Charles IIIwill becoronated on May 6, 2023, and confirmed that the Queen Consort, 75, will be honored during the service.
“The Ceremony will see His Majesty King Charles III crowned alongside The Queen Consort,” the palace said in a statement.
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“The Coronation will reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry,” courtiers said.
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Camilla will be the first Queen Consort crowned in Westminster in nearly a century, following the coronation ofKing George VIin 1937. There, his wife,Queen ElizabethThe Queen Mother, was invested beside her husband as the new Queen Consort and bequeathed a bespoke crown featuring 2,800 diamonds, according to theRoyal Collection Trust.
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When their daughter,Queen Elizabeth, celebrated her coronation 16 years later, her husbandPrince Philipwas not crowned beside her. Though the wives of male monarchs become Queen Consorts, the husbands of female monarchs do not receive the distinction of King Consort — instead, the correct term is “Prince Consort” or “Consort to the Queen.” Philip, then 31, became just the fifth Prince Consort to a reigning Queen in British history, as Prince Albert was to Queen Victoria,Buckingham Palacesaid.
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“The husband of a reigning Queen, unlike a Queen Consort, is not crowned or anointed at the coronation ceremony,” the palace states. “In 1953 The Duke of Edinburgh was, however, the first peer to ‘do homage’ or pay his respects to The Queen, immediately after the Archbishops and Bishops.”
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More information about Charles' upcoming investiture is expected to be released in the coming months.
King Charles reportedly plans to do away with rites like the traditional presentation of gold ingots to the monarch and nix a Court of Claims (to determine coronation duties for members of the gentry) in the run-up to the big event.
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As Prince Philip steered much of the organizing for the Queen’s historic coronation 70 years ago, heir to the thronePrince Williamwill reportedly play an important role in helping his father plan the ceremony.
“The King has stripped back a lot of the Coronation in recognition that the world has changed in the past 70 years,” a source told theMail.
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The public can still look forward to some classic fairytale elements, however. King Charles is expected to ride in the Gold State Coach, recently refurbished for the Queen’sPlatinum Jubilee, in a ceremony televised as his mother’s coronation was in 1953. The royal family will also come out to support the final and most formal step of King Charles' accession as sovereign.
source: people.com
