Next Saturday, May 6, the long-awaited coronation ceremony of King Charles III and Queen Camilla will finally take place in London. An act that will take place with a solemn religious celebration at Westminster Abbey that will be led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and that will be very different from that lived by his mother of the current king, Queen Elizabeth II.
The ceremony will not only be much shorter in duration and less extravagant than the one his mother lived in 1953, but it will also have many fewer illustrious guests, in accordance with the current king's plans to gradually reduce the positions and active members of the British royal family. For this reason, the king himself has decided to celebrate an alternative party to be able to enjoy the moment with all of them.
Kings Carlos and Camilla will thus offer a reception at Buckingham Palace on Friday, May 5, the night before they are crowned, to receive all the illustrious guests who have not been able to pass the court list to attend the official celebration, given the limited space of the Abbey.
As reported by the British newspaper Mail Online, this type of celebration has been a resource that has been used in the past, with the one celebrated by King George IV being so lavish in 1821 that 23 kitchens had to be created temporarily in Westminster Hall to be able to support the monarch and all his guests.
A celebration that was so expensive for the British royal house that another was never held again, until this year, when by not proceeding with the traditional banquet after the coronation, they decided to give the green light to the previous ceremony with the rest of their guests -it was it calculates that more than a thousand of them-, among which various European monarchs, international leaders, leaders of the Commonwealth and the wives and children of representatives of British society are expected to have access to the official event the following day.
The coronation ceremonies begin on May 6 at Westminster Abbey, followed by lunch and a massive concert at Windsor Castle on Sunday May 7, with stars such as Lionel Ritchie, Take That or Katy Perry. . On Monday, May 8, the kings and other members of the family will take part in the massive volunteer act that will be held nationwide, thus ending the official acts.
Some events that are not expected to attend, among others, Prince Harry, who is expected to only be present during the religious ceremony and take a flight to the United States that same day to meet his wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, who will not attend the coronation. Who will attend will be Prince Andrew and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, excluded from the religious ceremony.
