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Here they are! The Coronation begins.

I've just seen the King - in his robes - and the Queen entering the Diamond Jubilee coach. Two minutes from now and they will leave Buckingham Palace for Westminster Abbey.

The anointing of the monarch during their coronation goes back to the anointing of the King of Dal Riada on the west coast of Scotland over 1000 years ago.

There's a few hours of music being performed at Westminster Abbey before the big event starts. I'm listening to it now on BBC One as I get ready in the bathroom.

More than 5,000 armed forces personnel travelled by train to London Waterloo before marching off to take part in the coronation. Network Rail said it was the biggest movement of military personnel on Britain's railways since Sir Winston Churchill's funeral in 1965. Members of the Royal Navy...

Remember, this will only be the second televised Coronation and the first to be broadcast live on the internet, such is the rarity of this event. One part of the Coronation that will not be televised will be the anointing of the King with holy oil on his head, hands and chest by the Archbishop...

Brits are to celebrate Charles III ascending to the Throne by downing 130 million pints of beer...

Now that it's Coronation Day here and the big event is just hours away it's time to just shove everything related to it into one thread. Saturday 6th May 2023 is finally here and here are the front pages of the newspapers...

The Royals do pay taxes. And why should he abdicate just to out William on the Throne? We have a thing called the Line of Succession.

Britain is, as you shall see tomorrow.

12,000. It's too late for me to correct the typo now. Never mind. Make sure you go to bed early tonight. The Coronation probably starts around 4am your time. You wouldn't want to miss it.

"Britain REMAINS the greatest country in the world", says New Zealander Dan Wottoon on Coronation Eve

'King Charles has the nation behind him today, and if he is to chart a new course, as is his right, to do so with caution and respect for the 1,200years that came before.' - Laurence Fox, leader of the Reclaim Party

On Coronation Eve, royal fans in central London were delighted to greet the King, along with William and Kate, on the Mall GB News's Patrick Christys shakes hands with King Charles: 'I thought I'd chance it!'

Mind the gap! King and Queen Consort record special Coronation rail announcement

The Prince and Princess of Wales today visited a pub in Soho, in the City of Westminster, London, where William pulled a pint of Kingmaker. During the Coronation on Saturday, the Heir to the Throne will swear allegiance to his father King Charles III in Westminster Abbey. William, 40, will...

A woman has travelled all the way from America to camp out on The Mall for the King's Coronation. "Nobody does it like the British. We don't have anything like this in the States."

Every year the British monarch hosts two or three garden parties at Buckingham Palace and one at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh. Today King Charles III hosted his first garden party alongside the Queen for the upcoming Coronation. Also in attendance were the King's brother and his...

Princess Anne has posed for a splendid photo with the Coldstream Guards at Wellington Barracks as Britain gears up for a long Bank Holiday weekend of celebrations and parties for the first Coronation in 70 years. Coldstream Guard Colonel Toby Till calls today's visit from the Princess Royal at...