@nytimes: Britain’s Charles III was crowned king on Saturday, during an eighth-century ritual in a 21st-century metropolis with a handful of concessions to the modern age but the unabashed pageantry of a fairy tale, unseen since the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, his mother, in 1953. “I come not to be served, but to serve,” Charles said in his first remarks of the ceremony, setting the theme for the intimate yet grand proceedings. The king, 74, was anointed with holy oil, symbolizing the sacred nature of his rule. He was vested with an imperial mantle, and the archbishop of Canterbury placed the ancient crown of St. Edward onto his head. After the service, Charles and his wife, the newly crowned Queen Camilla, returned to Buckingham Palace in a golden stagecoach used by Elizabeth for her coronation procession. Tens of thousands of people crowded into central London, despite the rain, for a glimpse of the king and his queen, Camilla, who traveled from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, escorted by four divisions of the Household Mounted Cavalry regiment. #coronation #kingcharles

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Saturday 06 May 2023 14:06:13 GMT