Details revealed about King Charles III's coronation service
The coronation service for King Charles III will be one of many faiths and many languages
The coronation service for King Charles III will be one of many faiths and many languages
Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic will be spoken during ceremony for Charles.
The rich purple velvet and gold robe is embroidered with bees, a beetle, flowers, national emblems and Camilla’s cypher.
The main elements are the Recognition; the Oath; the Anointing; the Investiture and Crowning; and the Enthronement and Homage.
Charles’s paternal Greek heritage will be celebrated in the specially commissioned moment.
For the first time representatives from the nation’s faith communities will play an active role in the coronation of a monarch.
The Queen Consort will also be presented with a ruby ring which ‘marries’ her to the King.
Lambeth Palace said the personal prayer was a ‘powerful’ new part of the ancient ceremony.
The historic addition to the ancient coronation ceremony will see people across the UK and overseas realms invited to swear allegiance to Charles III.
New ground has been broken in other areas, from the inclusion of female Bishops to the use of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic.