Before an audience of 100 world leaders and millions of viewers, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, slowly placed the 360-year-old “St Edward’s Crown” on Charles’s head. , who sat on a throne dating from the 4th century, ten at Westminster Abbey.
And Britain’s ‘Daily Mail’ quoted William telling a group of citizens in a friendly chat: ‘I think he had a neck ache last night from corona. His weight is very heavy. ”
He added that the crown was placed very carefully to ensure that it would not fall from the king’s head.
The British newspaper reported that the crown, which weighs two and a quarter kilograms, was worn at the exact moment of the coronation, adding that he also wore a second crown called “Crown of the Empire”, which weighs around one kilogram.
Last December, Buckingham Palace announced that the historic tiara would be modified to fit the size of King Charles III’s head.
St. Edward’s Crown consists of a solid gold frame set with rubies, amethysts, sapphires, garnets, topazes and tourmalines, and follows its medieval predecessor with 4 crosses and 4 flowers of mercury, and has a velvet cap decorated with ermine.
Coronation of King Charles
Charles III was crowned King of Britain in Britain’s biggest ceremony for seven decades, a spectacle of pomp and grandeur that sought to blend a millennium of history with a monarchy fit for a new era. In a historic and solemn two-hour ceremony dating back to the reign of King William the Conqueror in 1066, Camilla, Charles’s second wife, was crowned queen. A huge military parade followed, rifle shots were fired in salute, thousands of soldiers cheered three times, military planes flew by just above the ground, while the newly crowned king and queen waved from the balcony of Buckingham Palace to the jubilant crowd gathered on the road to Dhamoul. Charles, 74, automatically succeeded his mother as British monarch after her death last September. The coronation is not necessary but is considered as a means of legitimizing the new sovereign in general.
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