2023-05-06 11:29:36
06.05.2023
The new monarch of Great Britain participated in a pompous ceremony with Camila and some 2,300 guests at Westminster Abbey in London.
Charles III74, was crowned this Saturday (05.06.2023) at Westminster Abbey, in a lavish and solemn ceremony in London, an unprecedented event in the United Kingdom for 70 years. The act took place eight months following he ascended to the throne following the death of his mother Isabel II.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, placed the crown of Saint Edward on the king’s head before some 2,300 guests, including a hundred foreign heads of state, such as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the kings of Spain, Felipe VI and Letizia . After placing the crown on him, the archbishop shouted to the congregation “God save the King”, following which trumpets were heard. Carlos III’s wife, Camila, was crowned immediately following in a similar but simpler way.
Seated on St Edward’s oak chair, considered the oldest piece of furniture in the United Kingdom and placed on a medieval mosaic floor, Charles III was crowned following receiving the various royal regalia, which symbolize the responsibilities as the British head of state until the day of his death.
The king was given the sovereign’s orb, symbolizing the world; the scepter with a cross, which represents the Christian world; and the scepter of the dove, symbol of the spiritual role of the monarch.
Carlos III on his way to the royal ceremony.
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Finally, Welby placed the crown of Saint Edward, made of gold and decorated with rubies, amethysts, sapphires, garnets and topazes, the only time in his life that the monarch will wear it. Before, the monarch was anointed with consecrated oil by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most solemn religious rite of the coronation liturgy, which requires the monarch to be temporarily hidden from the public.
The sovereign was veiled by a panel of cloth embroidered with angel motifs and a tree with 56 leaves representing each of the Commonwealth countries, blessed in the Royal Chapel of St James’s Palace a week ago. During the anointing, the choir sang the piece “Zadok the Priest”, composed by Georg Friedrich Handel for the coronation of George II in 1727.
Accompanied by thousands of members of the military and royalty, the monarchs will return in a new procession to Buckingham Palace, where accompanied by their family they will greet the crowd from the balcony.
However, not all Britons are happy with the historic coronation. Hours before the event a group of anti-monarchist activists He was taking his banners with the slogan “Not my King” out of a truck, when the police detained several of them. Despite the unsuccessful attempts at demonstrations, a few meters from there, thousands of admirers of the monarchs crowded from early in the morning to see the kings go by, some for days, behind the barriers placed in The Mall, the great avenue that starts from Buckingham Palace.
DZC (EFE, AFP)
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