After the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the British take part in thousands of neighborhood lunches on Sunday, before a big concert at Windsor Castle.
After several days of rehearsals, receptions, garden parties and solemn coronations at Westminster Abbey, the 74 and 75-year-old royal couple will hold a private reception at Windsor Castle (west London) on Sunday before attending the concert. , presented by actor Hugh Bonneville (Downtown Abbey) in front of 20,000 spectators.
The American singers Lionel Richie and Katy Perry, the Chinese pianist Lang Lang, the Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli and a choir of more than 300 people from very diverse backgrounds will perform there.
But no British headliners responded.
Singer Lionel Richie in Westminster on May 6, for the coronation ceremony.
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Actor Tom Cruise is also set to make a video appearance, and even Winnie the Pooh is announced, possibly following in the footsteps of the Paddington Bear, star of a video where he had tea with Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of the Jubilee concert in June 2022.
Members of the royal family join the block parties
On Monday, a public holiday granted especially for the coronation, the British were encouraged to take part in voluntary actions but the royal couple did not plan any public appearance.
He delegated to other members of the royal family the "
big lunches
" and neighborhood parties planned in the country on Sunday.
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Prince Edward and his wife Sophie will travel to Cranleigh in Surrey (south), Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence will be in Swindon, in the Cotswolds (west) and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, daughters of Prince Andrew who became an outcast of the family, were announced in Windsor.
Thousands of Britons are expected to attend these lunches, with pennants and decorations in the colors of the British flag.
But 72% of Britons, unmotivated by the coronation, have no intention of taking part in any celebration, according to a YouGov poll on Friday.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has planned to invite volunteers, Ukrainian refugees and groups of young people to Downing Street for a post-coronation lunch.
A historic and sumptuous ceremony
Saturday's religious coronation in London of Charles III made for a historic day, with all the pomp associated with grand events in the monarchy.
The photo of Charles crowned made the front page of all British newspapers on Sunday, hailing the "
glorious coronation
" of the monarch.
The photo of Charles crowned makes the front page of all the newspapers.
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Charles III, wearing heavy ancestral ceremonial robes, was acclaimed, sworn in, anointed and crowned at Westminster Abbey in front of 2,300 guests, in a millennial Anglican rite, modernized at the margins.
His wife Camilla was also blessed and crowned.
The crowned king.
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Accompanied by a spectacular procession, the couple returned in a golden coach to Buckingham Palace, from where they greeted thousands of fans who had braved the rain to see them.
The oldest British king ever crowned, he is not as popular as his mother Elizabeth II who died in September and anti-monarchy protesters demonstrated in London on Saturday as the carriages passed, as well as in other British cities.
Anti-monarchy protesters.
SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP
Republican protesters arrested then released
London police, who had announced a very low level of "
tolerance
", arrested six leaders of the anti-monarchy group Republic, including leader Graham Smith.
They were released about 16 hours later.
"
I'm out now
," Graham Smith tweeted Saturday night.
“
Make no mistake about it.
The right to peaceful protest no longer exists in the UK.
»
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In total, the police announced that they had arrested 52 people on the sidelines of the coronation celebrations "
for disturbing public order, disturbing the peace and conspiring to cause a public nuisance around the coronation
".
Climate activists are among those arrested.
"
It's something you expect to see in Moscow, not in London
," protested Human Rights Watch, as a new law, which gives police more powers to restrict protests, has been criticized even at the UN.