King Charles III was on Saturday crowned the King of the United Kingdom at Westminster Abbey, in a solemn religious ceremony that dates back almost a thousand years.
Charles III will be crowned king today in Britain's biggest ceremonial event in seven decades. Thousands are expected to line the streets and millions will watch at home and across the globe.
The coronation of King Charles III will be replete with rituals. The monarch will hold a Sovereign’s Sceptre with the Cross that carries the Cullinan I diamond, which South Africa wants back. And he will wear the dazzling St Edward’s Crown but only once in his life
Charles III will be crowned king today in the country's biggest ceremonial event in seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1,000 years - but adapted to reflect 21st-century Britain.