Inside plans for King Charles’ cut-back coronation set to last just over an hour… and who probably WON’T be invited
KING Charles’ cost-of-living coronation will last just over an hour, it has been reported.
His Majesty’s crowning service is likely to be cut to around a third of the length of Queen Elizabeth’s, which lasted more than three hours in 1953.
The King is understood to want a scaled back ceremony to recognise the cost-of-living crisis and to establish his modern, slimmed-down monarchy.
Blueprints for the plans suggest the guest list will be slashed from 8,000 to 2,000 and there is likely to be a more relaxed dress code.
Hundreds of nobles and MPs are expected to be told they cannot be guaranteed a palace in Westminster Abbey.
Discussions are also being held about allowing peers to wear lounge suits rather than ceremonial robes.
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And ancient rituals like presenting the monarch with gold bars are set to be scrapped, the reports.
Prince William is also expected to have an important planning role.
His Majesty's coronation is likely to be more religiously and culturally diverse, feature less outfit changes and have modernised language.
But the monarch will still be anointed, swear to be the "defender of the faith", and ride in the 1762 Gold State Coach.
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This week it was speculated that he would be crowned on June 3, almost 70 years to the day after his mother's ceremony.
She was crowned on June 2 1953, 16 months after becoming monarch.
The King will have waited nine months for his ceremony if June 3 goes ahead. Discussions over which days will be bank holidays are ongoing, reports.
It is possible Brits could get a day off work on Friday June 2 - when the Queen was crowned - for a long weekend marking the state event.
No date for the King's coronation has been officially confirmed and it remains to be decided, The Sun understands.
Charles will be 74 for the slimmed-down ceremony, making him the oldest British monarch to be crowned.
Planning for the nation's first coronation in 70 years began just 48 hours after the Queen’s emotional state funeral last month.
Sources told The Sun the service will be shorter, smaller and less expensive than the Queen's coronation.
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Charles became King when his mother died on September 8 and formally acceded to the throne at a ceremony held two days later at St James’s Palace in London.
At 73 years old, he is the oldest King to ascend to the British throne — beating King William IV who was 64 when he took the crown in 1830.
