The St. Edward's crown, which has 444 precious stones on it, weighs five pounds. The Archbishop of Canterbury puts him in the coronation chair while Camilla looks on from the background and takes the imperial crown. And when he was anointed with oil from an ampoule, which was pure gold in the shape of some sort of mythical bird - a phoenix or something.
Talking to my parents about the coronation ceremony of King Charles III which happened in Westminster, London on Saturday 6 May. Includes descriptions of the ceremony and discussion of some of the issues related to it, plus a few dodgy jokes along the way ๐.
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