The procession route for King Charles III’s coronation will be shorter than the one his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, but otherwise there are few signs so far that the British royals are toning down the pomp for the May 6 ceremonies.
It’s unclear how the cost of this coronation will compare with the last one. The British government, which picks up the tab, says that information will be published at a later date. But a less expensive affair could go down well in some quarters, at a time of double-digit inflation and renewed scrutiny of the cost of the British royal family.
It’s possible that the shorter parade route, though, has as much to do with comfort as concerns about cost or optics. It is also extremely uncomfortable, according to the select few who have ridden in it for coronations and state openings of Parliament.Tour guides at the Royal Mews, where it is usually housed, tell of how King William IV compared it to a ship “tossing in a rough sea”; Queen Victoria lamented its “distressing oscillation”; and George VI described the journey to his coronation as “one of the most uncomfortable rides I have ever had in my life.
They will reserve the gold coach for after the coronation ceremony, returning to Buckingham Palace along a route of about 1.3 miles — much curtailed compared with the snaking five-mile return journey of Charles’s mother in 1953.
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