After the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the British find themselves together this Sunday, May 7, taking part in tens of thousands of neighborhood lunches, before a big concert at Windsor Castle.
More than 67,000 editions of the “Big Lunch” – a British tradition at every royal celebration, with pennants and decorations in the colors of the Union Jack – have been counted across the country for this long coronation weekend.
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If Charles and Camilla, freshly crowned, will not participate, other members of the royal family will make an appearance during these popular festivals. Prince Edward and his wife Sophie will travel to Cranleigh in Surrey (south), Princess Anne and her husband Tim Laurence will be in Swindon (west) and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, daughters of Prince Andrew who has become an outcast of the family, have announced in Windsor.
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A private reception at Windsor Castle
But 72% of Britons, little motivated by this coronation, do not intend to participate 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.
For their part, after several days of rehearsals, receptions, garden parties and solemn coronation at Westminster Abbey, the 74 and 75-year-old royal couple will organize a private reception on Sunday at Windsor Castle (west London) before d attend a big concert in front of 20,000 spectators.
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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. No British headliners responded.
“Glorious Coronation”
Actor Tom Cruise is set to make a video appearance, as is Winnie the Pooh, possibly following in the footsteps of Paddington Bear, star of a video where he had tea with Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of the Jubilee concert in June 2022.
On Monday, a public holiday granted especially for the coronation, the British were encouraged to take part in voluntary actions.
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. Even the rain – systematic during the last five coronations, said the weather services – was there.
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In the mind of Charles III, during the coronation
The photo of Charles crowned makes the front page of all the British newspapers on Sunday which salute the “glorious coronation” of the monarch. Charles III, wearing heavy ancestral ceremonial robes, was cheered, 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.
More than 9 million viewers in France
More than 14 million viewers watched live on the BBC the moment the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the first dignitary of the Anglican religion, placed on Charles’s head the heavy crown of St Edward, in solid gold and set with rubies.
In France, nearly nine million viewers on average watched the coronation in London of King Charles III and Queen Camilla on all the channels that broadcast it between noon and around 2 p.m., according to data from Médiamétrie on Sunday.
By way of comparison, the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II brought together an average of 7.5 million viewers (66.7% of PDA) on Monday September 19, 2022 between noon and around 1 p.m. on all French channels broadcasting it. , a little more than those of her husband Prince Philip (seven million on April 17, 2021).
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Manifestations anti-monarchie
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.
The London police, who had announced a degree of ” tolerance “ very low, drew heavy criticism for arresting six leaders of the anti-monarchy group Republic, including leader Graham Smith. They were released about 16 hours later.
“Make no mistake about it. The right to peaceful protest no longer exists in the UK”tweeted Graham Smith on Saturday evening.
In total, police say they have arrested 52 people on the sidelines of coronation celebrations “for disturbing public order, breach of the peace and conspiring to cause a public nuisance around the coronation”. Climate activists are among those arrested.
