London. Britain’s Emperor Charles III will be officially enthroned in a grand ceremony on Saturday. Critics of monarchy in Britain have called this democracy a mockery. There is also a possibility of protests during this time.
King Charles and his wife Camilla will leave Buckingham Palace at 10.20am BST (9:20am GMT), traveling the streets of London in a six-horse royal carriage and arrive at Westminster Abbey (a collegiate church).Official Ceremony Canterbury The liturgy will begin at Westminster Abbey at 06:00 BST (06:00 GMT) by the Archbishop of London.
The king and queen will be crowned side by side in the first coronation ceremony in seventy years. The royal procession will pass through Trafalgar Square, where there is a statue of 17th-century British monarch King Charles I. He was executed in 1649 for his authoritarian rule. About 1,700 republican activists are expected to gather for the Not My King protest in the square.
An anti-monarchy group, behind the march, told protesters dressed in yellow to line the streets with red-white-blue Union Jack flags. Republic leader Graham Smith told the media that they wanted the monarchy to end. want to see and replace the king with a democratic head of state. He described the coronation ceremony as a ‘vanity parade’ held in the midst of a crisis of livelihood.
Buckingham Palace has not disclosed the cost of the ceremony, but British media have put the cost of the coronation ceremony at up to 100 million pounds ($126 million). This expense was to come despite reducing the number of guests attending the 1953 ceremony from 8,000 to 2,000.
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