Eight months after his accession to the British throne, on the death of his mother Elizabeth II, Charles III, 74, was crowned Saturday, May 6 at Westminster Abbey in front of more than 2000,75 guests according to a thousand-year-old Anglican rite. His wife Camilla, <>, was also blessed and crowned.
At the end of the ceremony, the King and Queen of England boarded their carriage to Buckingham Palace, where a photo shoot was organized with British photographer Hugo Burnand to capture this historic event. Highly anticipated, the photos were revealed on Monday, by the Palace, at the end of three days of festivities in the country. One of them shows the Windsor clan tightened to a few active members of the royal family gathered around Charles and Camilla. The women wear white dresses, with the exception of Princess Anne, in military ceremonial uniform, the men wear their knights' capes of the Order of the Garter.
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We see Prince William and his wife Kate Middleton, Princess Anne and her husband Sir Timothy Laurence, or Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh. Also at their side: the Duke of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and Princess Alexandra of Kent.
Prince Harry, on the other hand, predictably, is absent from the family photo. Prince Andrew, stripped of his military affiliations and royal patronage in January 2022, also does not appear in the photo.
First official portrait
In the process, the Palace shared the first official portrait of Charles since his coronation. Imperial crown on his head, dressed in his ermine cloak, the king poses in ceremonial dress facing the camera, seated on his throne, scepter and crucigerous orb in hands.
In another photograph, taken in the salons of Buckingham, it is Camilla who reveals herself, standing, dressed in her coronation outfit. Finally, a fourth shot shows the royal couple, standing, sketching a faint smile.
If it was the first coronation in seventy years, Charles remains less popular than his mother and more than 70% of Britons had no intention of participating in any celebration this weekend, according to a recent poll cited by AFP. The coronation was much less followed on television than the funeral of Elizabeth II in September.
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