It is believed that in late Spring 2023, King Charles III will have his coronation ceremony.
According to The Daily Mail, King Charles hopes to have the grand and formal occasion on the 70th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth‘s coronation, which would be June 2, 2023.
The event will be as glorious as Queen Elizabeth’s coronation ceremony, which took place nearly 70 years ago with a lot of pageantry and traditions.
King Charles will have millions of people worldwide glued to their seats as they watch him take the coronation oath and sit on a throne placed above the Stone of Scone.
King Charles will receive the now-controversial Sovereign’s Scepter, which contains the world’s largest cut white diamond from Africa.
However, The King, determined to have a scale-down Monarchy, plans to have a less expensive and shorter coronation ceremony.
He is expected to have about 2000 guests at Westminster Abbey, where coronations have taken place for the last 900 years.
Note that Queen Elizabeth had more than 8,000 dignitaries at her coronation. King Charles wants to have his family front and center – because he wants to highlight the line of succession.
Therefore Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their three children — Prince George and Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis — will play more prominent roles than other members of the royal family.
Royal author and commentator Katie Nicholl explained in the new book, The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy and the Future of the Crown, via Vanity Fair: “King Charles’ coronation is expected to be shorter and less expensive than his mother’s, and the new king wants the public to witness the experience just as they did his accession. The ceremony will likely highlight the line of succession, with William, Kate, and their children featured more prominently than other members of the family.”
A royal insider revealed that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, despite their decision to quit their royal duties, would receive invitations to attend the coronation ceremony.
A former staffer told The Daily Beast that Prince Harry and Markle would get a rude awakening at the religious ceremony — King Charles will embarrass them with the seating arrangement as he did during Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.
King Charles will offer Prince Harry and Markle cheap seats because he does not want them to get any of the spotlight.
The source shared: “Harry and Meghan will get an invite to the coronation, but they will be firmly seated in the cheap seats along with Beatrice and Eugenie, as they were at the funeral. That will be it. Charles will be ruthless when it comes to protecting the Crown, and that means keeping Harry and Meghan as far from the center of gravity as possible.”
Some royal experts believe that Prince Harry and Markle might give a valid reason and decline the invitation in order to avoid humiliation.
