What to expect at the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla
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The coronation that will take place on Saturday is at its heart a Church of England service that will see King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, crowned at Westminster Abbey in London in a ceremony that is steeped in 1,000 years of history.
While much of the tradition has been preserved, some changes have been made to shorten the ceremony — it's expected to be about two hours, down from three the last time, for Queen Elizabeth in 1953.
Some changes to the service also seem intended to try to create a feeling of greater inclusivity and to emphasize the importance Charles places on service.
"There are some interesting new elements," Craig Prescott, a constitutional law expert at Bangor University in Wales, said in an interview.
"I think the very opening of it, where the King sort of says I'm here to serve — I think it's really interesting and that in broad terms sets the tone."
Bob Morris, a member of the honorary staff of the constitution unit at University College London, said many of the small changes "are really designed to incorporate in the ceremony a much wider group of people than were incorporated in 1953."
"Aristocrats are hardly present at all."
The service will include female clergy for the first time, and participation from representatives of other faiths.
"Faith leaders and representatives from the Jewish, Sunni and Shia Muslim, Sikh, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, Bahai and Zoroastrian communities will be part of the procession into Westminster Abbey," the Church of England said in the coronation liturgy.
"This represents the multifaith nature of our society and the importance of inclusion of other faiths whilst respecting the integrities of the different traditions."
Here's a look at some of the key elements of the coronation and the spectacle that will surround it on Saturday.
King Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, will travel in a procession — smaller than occurred in 1953 — from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey ahead of the service, which begins at 6 a.m. ET.
They will travel in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach, and not the more uncomfortable and much older Golden State Coach, which they will use to return to the palace after the ceremony.
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