The Coronation of Charles 111

Primrose53

Anybody who claims our country is racist is so wrong. We have a beautiful black lady taking an important part of the service, we have an Asian PM doing a reading and doing it very well and we have a small black choir performing a lovely hymn and looking very happy to do so.

We also have Floella Benjamin (through the round window) bearing part of the regalia. (Can’t see Humpty or Hamble though, perhaps they’re in a back row.)

The plain song I mean

It transports you back through the ages

Loved the Gospel Choir too!
It’s a lovely service - I don’t really remember Queen Elizabeth coronation in 1953 as I was just 5 but have recently seen so many newsreels of it etc that it feels familiar. But how stuffy and remote it all was. I feel genuinely proud and emotional because the King is doing his best to be one with us. He can’t help the accident of his birth but I genuinely believe he is going to do everything possible to serve his people - all of them, all of us 🤴👸. 🇬🇧

Oh wonderful plain song

Anybody who claims our country is racist is so wrong. We have a beautiful black lady taking an important part of the service, we have an Asian PM doing a reading and doing it very well and we have a small black choir performing a lovely hymn and looking very happy to do so.

I would love to be watching but unfortunately I’m working. We hoped our shop would close for a couple of hours so we could see the ceremony but owners weren’t prepared to lose takings! I shall have to make do with the highlights when I get home tonight!!

“made in Italy in the late 6th century, and it may have come to Kent in 597 with the mission directed by Pope Gregory”

St Augustine brought it to these islands.

The gospel choir made me cry

Love the Gospel Choir.

GrannyGravy13

How cute are they

Beautiful 🙂

Whitewavemark2

I wonder who wrote it? A monk presumably. Must look it up.

Was it St Augustine?

Whitewavemark2

Wow 6th century!!

Yes, amazing that it has survived thinking of all the religious turmoil over the centuries!

I wonder who wrote it? A monk presumably. Must look it up.

Wow 6th century!!

Lost picture

How cute are they

I am glad it isn't just me who finds it emotional!
I agree Charles seems nervous but is doing very well.
Wonderful really

maddyone

I was pleased to see Louis there, all dressed up in uniform. I think he’ll have been well tutored in what is expected and behaviour.

I think he has had The Chat with his parents 😁 and I wondered if Nanny is somewhere nearby, ready to whisk him away.

That William Byrd just gone is very difficult to sing.

Beautiful choral music

Awful mournful music!

Charles is understandably very nervous - but he is doing fine.

David Starkey is indeed a very knowledgeable historian, whatever anyone may think of him. He knows his stuff. But I’m watching BBC now so don’t know what he’s saying.

It’s very emotional 🥲