Reports that King Charles III will have his coronation on June 3 at Westminster Abbey next year are 'pure speculation,' according to Buckingham Palace.
Bloomberg claimed on Wednesday (October 5) that an anonymous UK official said the coronation would be next June and most likely on the third. If King Charles is crowned on this date, it will be almost 70 years to the day after his late mother's coronation.
But the Manchester Evening News understands that no date has yet been set and plans are still being discussed. The Evening Standard have also quoted a palace spokesperson said any reports on a date were nothing but “pure speculation”..
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It is understood that Buckingham Palace will make an announcement once the arrangements have been organised and a date formally set.
Meanwhile Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg said he expects the coronation will be honoured with a bank holiday, according to The Telegraph . It comes amid reports that some government officials were afraid a bank holiday would stifle economic growth, after the additional bank holiday for the Queen's Jubilee this summer was blamed for a fall in GDP in June.
But Rees-Mogg said: "The coronation is an important symbolic act with constitutional resonance about the stability of our system. To have a day off for that is perfectly reasonable and the effect on growth will not be enormous."
By June next year King Charles III will be 74, making him the oldest person to be crowned in British history. It has been widely reported that the new king will have a "slimmed down" coronation, compared to that of his mother, amid the cost of living crisis.
Britain has not celebrated a coronation for 69 years, when Elizabeth II became Queen. King George VI died on February 6, 1952, Elizabeth's coronation at Westminster Abbey did not take place for another 17 months, with her being anointed Queen on June 2, 1953.
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