The coronation will take place at Westminster Abbey
(Picture: PA Wire)Buckingham Palace has announced that King Charles’s coronation will be held on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
In a statement, the palace said: “Buckingham Palace is pleased to announce that the coronation of His Majesty The King will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
“The coronation ceremony will take place at Westminster Abbey, London, and will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“The ceremony will see His Majesty King Charles III crowned alongside the Queen Consort.
“The coronation will reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in long-standing traditions and pageantry.”
Camilla will also be crowned Queen Consort on this day, alongside her husband King Charles.
Will there be a bank holiday for King Charles’s coronation?
There has been no confirmation or hints that the UK will recieve a bank holiday for the coronation. Back in June, the UK was given an extra bank holiday for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, and again for the Queen’s funeral in September.
As the King’s coronation falls on a weekend, it is unlikely that the Government will hold a bank holiday on either side of that weekend.
The Early May Bank Holiday falls just before the coronation, on Monday, May 1 in 2023, so it is unlikely that another bank holiday would be added. It has also been rumoured that this bank holiday could be moved to Friday, May 5, but this is yet to be confirmed.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has backed calls for a bank holiday, saying that a public day off would be “suitable”.
“I think that having a bank holiday for a coronation seems to me the eminently suitable thing to do,” he told the BBC
“But there is a process that has to be gone through and it has to be approved ultimately by the Privy Council.”
Other MPs have called for the May 1 bank holiday to be moved to Monday, May 8 to give the UK a long weekend.
What will the coronation involve?
It has been reported that His Majesty is planning a “less expensive” coronation ceremony than his mother’s, given the UK’s cost-of-living crisis.
The cost of living has been increasing across the UK since early 202. And in August, the annual rate of inflation reached 9.9%, close to a 30 year high. Millions of households have suffered, as the affordability of goods and services has risen and continues to shoot up.
A royal source told The Daily Mirror: “The King is very aware of the struggles felt by modern Britons so will see his wishes carried through that although his coronation ceremony should stay right and true to the long held traditions of the past, it should also be representative of a monarchy in a modern world.”
Apart from this adjustment, the coronation is expected to remain quite traditional, and similar to the Queen’s Coronation. King Charles III will take the Coronation oath, be anointed with consecrated oil and receive the orb and sceptres
The Archbishop of Canterbury will place the glittering St Edward’s Crown on his head and he is then expected to appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace with Queen Consort Camilla, as well as the new Prince and Princess of Wales and their children.
