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Camilla then was anointed, crowned, and enthroned. The King and Queen ended the service by taking Holy Communion, and processed out of the abbey. [93] Spectators camping in a public viewing area along the procession route a day before the event. Several public viewing spots of the procession were prepared. [94]
Camilla (born Camilla Rosemary Shand, later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. [note 1] Camilla was raised in East Sussex and South Kensington in England and educated in England, Switzerland, and France. In 1973, she married British Army officer ...
Camilla will be crowned at Charles’s side at his coronation, just as the last Queen Consort, the Queen Mother, was. She is expected to wear the Queen Mother’s 1937 coronation crown.
King Charles III’s coronation will happen next year on May 6. During the ceremony his wife Queen Consort Camilla will be crowned, the first crowning of a consort in nearly a century.
To mark the start of the king's reign, both King Charles and his wife, Camilla, the queen consort, will don crowns pulled from the Tower of London, where they have been guarded since the 17th century.
The earliest surviving consort's crown is that created in 1685 for Mary of Modena. In the early-20th century, new crowns were created for each queen consort in turn. However, Queen Camilla did not have a new crown created for her coronation in 2023 and she was crowned using the 1911 Crown of Queen Mary. [14]
While the wife of a king is traditionally crowned queen, the question of what title Camilla would hold when Charles became king had been a tricky one for many years. That was due to sensitivity ...
The royal website used to declare: “A Queen consort is crowned with the King, in a similar but simpler ceremony.” But following Charles’s marriage to Camilla, it added the get-out clause ...