It is a historic role
Buckingham Palace has officially confirmed some of the roles that will be undertaken at King Charles III's Coronation - including the role of King's champion for a famous farmer close to Nottinghamshire. Francis Dymoke, of Lincolnshire, will not have to throw his gauntlet down and see if anyone accepts his challenge, but instead will carry the Royal Standard during the Westminster Abbey ceremony.
She said: “I feel honoured and privileged to be part of the historic coronation ceremony. To be selected to carry the Sovereign’s Sceptre With Dove, which represents spirituality, equity and mercy, is for me very symbolic as it’s everything I stand for and sends out a clear message that diversity and inclusion is being embraced.”
The office of King’s Champion began in the reign of William the Conqueror and it was the warrior’s role to ride a horse into Westminster Hall during the coronation banquet and challenge anyone who denied the sovereign’s right to the throne to combat. Queen Victoria dispensed with the custom at her coronation, and Henry Dymoke – Queen’s Champion at the time – was made a baronet by way of compensation.
Bearing the flag of the United Kingdom ahead of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty will be Cadet Warrant Officer Elliott Tyson-Lee. The King and Queen Consort’s procession will follow, led by the Marquess of Anglesey, the Duke of Westminster, the Earl of Caledon and the Earl of Dundee, who will carry the Standards of the Quarterings of the Royal Arms and the Standard of the Principality of Wales.
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