Huge Army Procession to Mark King Charles’ Coronation

LONDON (Reuters) – Round 5,000 members of the British armed forces will take part within the coronation of King Charles subsequent month, joined by troopers from greater than 30 Commonwealth international locations to kind one of many largest ceremonial army operations in a long time.

Charles can be topped at London’s Westminster Abbey on Could 6 in a ceremony resplendent with pomp and pageantry, with traditions relationship again 1,000 years.

Gun salutes will sound out throughout the nation to mark the second the king is topped, earlier than army personnel later conduct a flypast of greater than 60 plane.

“From the procession on The Mall, to the flypast over London, with gun salutes at sea and throughout the nation, it is going to be a spectacular and becoming tribute,” Defence Secretary Ben Wallace stated in a press release on Sunday.

The coronation comes lower than eight months after big crowds thronged the streets of London to witness the grand processions and ceremonies that marked the funeral of Queen Elizabeth who died after 70 years on the throne.

The palace has been slowly releasing particulars of her son Charles’ coronation, which is ready to have a number of variations from that of Elizabeth’s in 1953, most notably in its scale, partly reflecting the fashionable age and the price of residing disaster.

Buckingham Palace stated Charles had additionally been concerned within the commissioning course of and particulars of the music programme, with movie composer Patrick Doyle writing a coronation march and Andrew Lloyd Webber a coronation anthem.

(Reporting by Kate Holton; Enhancing by David Holmes)

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