King Charles III's Coronation: EVERYTHING We Know!

Britain's royal household doesn't accidental a lot, but a balcony photo is worthy 1,000 words.

Which is wherefore the satellite waited expectantly up of Coronation Day on May 6 to spot who would articulation King Charles III and Queen Camilla on their perch outside Buckingham Palace's Centre Room, the monarchy's premiere greet-the-people spot connected peculiar occasions since Queen Victoria's reign, erstwhile specified moments could lone beryllium painted for posterity. 

For starters, everyone who was expected made it into the shot, namely Charles' eldest lad Prince William, Kate Middleton and their children, Prince George, 9, Princess Charlotte, 8, and Prince Louis, 5; arsenic good arsenic the king's younger siblings Princess Anne and her hubby Sir Timothy Laurence; plus Prince Edward and his woman Sophie, present the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. 

Sophie and Edward's children, Lady Louise Mountbatten-Windsor, 19, and James, Earl of Wessex, besides had salient placement, arsenic did George's 7 chap Pages of Honour.

Prince Harry, nary longer a elder royal but mostly ranking successful hearts and minds, was not connected the balcony aft overmuch speculation arsenic to whether oregon not he'd look for the archetypal clip since the June 2019 Trooping the Colour, backmost erstwhile his (and woman Meghan Markle's) quality at such events was a given. 

During the coronation, Charles and Camilla were anointed with beatified lipid by the Archbishop of Canterbury and formally crowned—the monarch with the five-pound, 362-year-old St. Edward's Crown and his woman with the Crown of Queen Mary, which was primitively made successful 1911 for Charles' grandma and has been updated with diamonds from the precocious Queen Elizabeth II's collection.

All unneurotic the mates were wearing hundreds of carats of jewels upon their heads, the load lone somewhat lessened erstwhile Charles donned the Imperial Crown (St. Edward's ne'er leaves Westminster Abbey) for the thrust backmost to Buckingham Palace successful the 261-year-old Gold State Coach.

Upon arrival, Charles and Camilla headed to the balcony on the palace's East Front facing The Mall, wherever thousands of spectators were gathered to stock successful the vibes of the first coronation to instrumentality spot successful the United Kingdom successful 70 years.

"I've seen 1 coronation, and been the recipient successful the other," Elizabeth said in The Coronation, a 2018 documentary astir her momentous day, "which is beauteous remarkable."

Her late husband Prince Philip served arsenic Chair of the Coronation Commission and was integral successful the historical determination to televise a information of his wife's ceremony, reasoning it would service the monarchy well to demystify the ritual for the public.