It will take place in Westminster Abbey
King Charles III’s coronation will be held on Saturday, May 6, next year, Buckingham Palace has announced. The Queen Consort will also be crowned alongside the king. The deeply religious affair will take place in Westminster Abbey, eight months after the monarch's accession and the death of the Queen.
"The coronation will reflect the monarch's role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry." It is understood that the ceremony will include the same core elements of the traditional service, which has retained a similar structure for more than 1,000 years, while also recognising the spirit of our times.
The Palace has yet to comment on whether there will be any arrangements for a bank holiday. Further details are due to be released in due course, but the Government and the royal household will be conscious of the scale of the coronation in light of the cost-of-living crisis facing the country. Plans for the major event are known by the codename Operation Golden Orb, which sets out the blueprint for the service and the pageantry surrounding it. Charles will be anointed by the Archbishop and take his oath to "maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine worship, discipline, and government thereof, as the law established in England".
The royal website used to declare: "A Queen Consort is crowned with the King, in a similar but simpler ceremony." But, following Charles's marriage to Camilla, it added the get-out clause "unless decided otherwise".
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