Three days of official festivities include the crowning of Charles and Camilla on Saturday, lunches and a concert on Sunday and volunteering on Monday.
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As a King Is Crowned, Some Britons Ask Why the Monarchy Persists
As long as there has been a monarchy, there have been questions about its legitimacy. But for many people, it would be difficult to disentangle the royal family from British identity.
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King Charles: A Life in Photos
Cameras have followed Britain’s new head of state since infancy. Here is a selection of memorable images from a very public life.
Charles’s Coronation Brings Up Mixed Feelings About the British Monarchy
The divide in Bristol goes a long way toward explaining the substantial split in public opinion about the role the royals play in a modern Britain.
For King Charles, Coronation Day Is a Step on a Tightrope Walk
Britain’s head of state is said to want a more accessible, forward-looking and inclusive monarchy. It’s not an easy message to convey through golden relics and ancient rituals.
Man Arrested Outside Buckingham Palace as Police Conduct Controlled Explosion
Ahead of King Charles III’s coronation, a man threw what police called suspected shotgun cartridges onto the palace grounds, and a bag he carried was detonated as a precaution.
For King Charles’s Coronation, a Fancy Fish Pie Without the Fish
For most coronations over the past 800 years, the city of Gloucester in England has presented newly crowned monarchs with lamprey pies. Charles’s pie was different.
King Charles’s Coronation: A British TV Spectacle for the Digital Age
King Charles III’s coronation will be disseminated across numerous platforms to a less sympathetic public than when his mother was crowned in 1953.
Scotland’s Coronation Day: Charles Souvenirs, Anti-Monarchy Rallies and Shrugs
The crowning of King Charles III will be a test of sentiment about the monarchy in Scotland, where many supporters of independence see the royals as part of the Britain they want to leave behind.