The crown, the rite, the times, the symbols. A detailed plan (like London Bridge) that the Duke of Norfolk is working on. Anyone who gave details stopped because they blushed
Operation Golden Orb (Golden Globe, from the symbol of royal power) has identified the most demanding and important post-London Bridge operation project in court for more than ten years. If, in the days following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, London Bridge followed the UK’s every move, from the announcement to the BBC with the conductors clad in mourning, to the unfolding of eleven days of solemn ceremonies, to the state funeral, Operation Globo d Gold (during the rite at Westminster Abbey in 1953, Queen Elizabeth received a golden orb in her hand) Charles III. officially and solemnly make him the new king.
Further references to the coronation of Charles III. have surfaced through a message: After the Queen’s funeral in September 2022, the Duke of Norfolk was stopped for disrespecting the red. This is the holder of the kingdom’s oldest duchy, traditionally tasked with overseeing the departure of a ruler and then the coronation of his successor. The Duke of Norfolk, as Earl Marshal of the sovereign’s ceremonies in 1952, initially bid farewell to King George VI. and then handled the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953.
Investigated by the police and then reported to the magistrates for the offence, the current duke tried to get on with the preparations already underway for the coronation of the new king, Charles III. To justify. Edward Fitzalan-Howard, when questioned by judges, confirmed that the coronation will take place in 2023.
As for the date, there is speculation as to whether Charles will symbolically swear on June 2, 1953 – which in 2023 will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Queen’s coronation (2022 the Platinum Jubilee marked the 70th anniversary of the moment he inherited in 1952 the crown of Father George VI) – or whether he would like to settle for the traditional date of the sovereign’s official birthday, which is generally the second Saturday in June, 10 June in 2023.
However, nothing precludes choosing an earlier date, in spring or summer.
One thing is clear: unlike Elizabeth II, whose coronation had to wait more than a year, Charles’s will be very close.
And for more reasons than one: meanwhile the king, who turns 75 in 2023, has no time to lose then nobody, least of all Carlo, who is aware that in difficult times he will be a crowning glory, not them Intention to deploy an exorbitant spectacle for the cost. While it is magnificent in its traditional display of pageantry and circumstance.
The coronation of Elizabeth II had cost £1.57m, the equivalent of around £46m today. Too much of.
Carlo still has in his mind the image of his mother Elizabeth at work, crowned on her head at the solemn ceremony prepared at Westminster Abbey nearly seventy years ago. A while ago, Prince Charles recalled when he was a child, when he entered his mother’s study, he saw her working at her desk with the crown on her head. He asked her what she was doing and her mother explained that it was very difficult and she was trying to get used to it. It was St. Edward’s crown, massive and powerful, that George V dusted off in 1910 after a two-century hiatus. And for the historic day’s scenography, although the Labor government of 1945-51 had eroded the Lords’ standing with the Parliament Act 1949, the Kingdom’s peers still provided a splendid anachronistic setting. While the empire began to crumble with the independence of India in 1947.
On the eve of the rite in 1953, young Elizabeth practiced as she attempted to familiarize herself with the heavy crown that should have remained on her head for several hours during the ceremony at Westminster Abbey.
And the crown that Charles will wear will still be the same, or rather they will be: because in truth there are two used ones that usually “sleep” in their trunks at the Tower of London. That of St. Edward and then the Imperial State Crown, the crown paraded on Elizabeth II’s coffin at the state funeral ceremony.
During the coronation, a highly symbolic rite, the king sits on the Stone of Scone, which has awaited a new king for centuries behind the Westminster Altar, nestled beneath St Edward’s chair.
In his hand, scepter and globe (Elizabeth also wore the armillas, the bracelets of wisdom), the king promises to rule the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth according to law and justice, and vows to uphold Christianity in his kingdom.
After the solemn oath, the King is anointed, consecrated by the Archbishop of Canterbury with the holy oil kept in the ampulla (also kept in the Tower of London and in the form of an eagle), then the Archbishop places the crown on his head St. Edward. Traditionally, the peers of the empire wear their respective crowns at the same time.
And Camilla will be crowned too: Queen Consort as “blessed” by Elizabeth II in her Embassy in February 2022 at the time of 70 years of reign (and natural consort of the new King). On Camilla’s head is placed the 1937 crown used to crown Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as Queen Mother, who died in 2002 at the age of 101. And as the British honored her, the sparkling crown that Camilla will now wear shone on the bier as the British paid her tribute, with flowers laid by her daughter Elisabetta.
When Elizabeth was crowned, eight thousand international guests came to London for the event, the first major post-war Gotha gathering and also the first post-war informal summit. Guests from 129 countries arrived in London, but for Carlo there will be no more than 2,000 (as many as were invited to Elizabeth’s funeral). The King recognizes that difficult times — ongoing war, expensive living, and social tensions — call for a ceremony that is true to history but respects the urgencies of the present. And sensitivities. Also because he is aware that the costs will be borne by the state and that every move he makes will be scrutinized. A conscientious and careful lens. She certainly cannot count on the goodwill promised to Queen Elizabeth II for seventy years.
Certainly Charles III. opening the coronation doors to television, media and social media. The struggle to get the camera into Westminster Abbey was inventor Philip’s first challenge at the coronation of Elizabeth II. Only the anointing with consecrated oil was kept from the camera’s prying eyes. But this time there will be no filters: Carlo already wanted to film the moment (with Elisabetta in private) when he becomes king before the accession council, right after the death of his mother.
September 30, 2022 (change October 1, 2022 | 12:33)
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