The silhouette of a woman in black, who appears to be wearing a hood and carrying a scythe, in Westminster Abbey during the coronation of King Charles III and Camilla on Saturday, has been compared by internet users to The Grim Reaper .
The presence of the Grim Reaper means nothing good. Symbol commonly used in the Middle Ages, the Grim Reaper, this skeleton-like character dressed in black and walking with a scythe in his hand, had the reputation of visiting the inhabitants to announce their imminent death. Some spectators at the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday are certain to have seen her during the ceremony.
allegory of death
A figure spotted in Westminster Abbey during the coronation ceremony of Charles III and Camilla on Saturday and captured by BBC cameras was indeed noticed by many onlookers.
The streak was the subject of much speculation on Twitter, with some netizens believing it could be a bad omen for the King of England.
Others had gone further, believing that it could be the ghost of Princess Diana, the first wife of King Charles, who came for revenge, or even Meghan Markle, absent from the ceremony unlike her husband, King Harry, whose attitude has been scrutinized by the British media.
A member of the abbey community
But if the character of the Grim Reaper is indeed an allegory of death, the person seen on the video is ultimately only a beadle, a member of the abbey community who takes care of the good order of the church during an office. without belonging to the clergy, specified Westminster Abbey to our American colleagues from Newsweek.
Fortunately for the royal family, therefore, no ghost or symbol of the imminent death of the new crowned heads has entered this ceremony.
