Royal Mail is also applying for a special postmark to be stamped on letters in honour of the occasion. It will run from April 28 until May 10, and will read: “Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla 6 May 2023.” The stamps, designed by Atelier Works, …
Read More »I understand why I wasn’t invited to King’s Coronation
The Duchess confirmed earlier this month that she would not be attending the May 6 ceremony at Westminster Abbey. However, she is expected to be included in a private Royal family celebration. She is also expected to join the wider family for the Coronation Concert at Windsor Castle on May …
Read More »Dog charity championed by Queen Elizabeth granted its own palace garden party
King Charles gives permission for the Royal Kennel Club to celebrate its 150th anniversary in the garden of Buckingham Palace in May. Source link
Read More »Your day-by-day guide to the planned celebrations
Meanwhile, Prince George is set to become the youngest future king to play an official role at a coronation, having been named one of his grandfather’s four Pages of Honour. The nine-year-old will be tasked with carrying the King’s robes alongside three other Pages of Honour – schoolboys Lord Oliver …
Read More »When is it and what will happen?
The service has been planned to be representative of different faiths and community groups, in line with the King’s wish to reflect the ethnic diversity of modern Britain. He will still pledge to be “Defender of the Faith” in the Coronation oath, but palace aides and church officials plan to …
Read More »Christmas is the season to be merry, however much we have lost
I was struck when I was posting my Christmas cards – ever the optimist, given the mail strike – that our stamps still have the late Queen’s head on them, even the ones specially printed for the festive season. Our coins still have her face embossed on them, and she …
Read More »Royal Mail’s new barcode stamps are a very creepy imposition
In this dawn of the reign of King Charles III, while the country waits excitedly for new postage stamps with the King’s head on them, the Royal Mail appears to have other priorities. In its obsession with tracking and de-romanticising everything, it is imposing new stamps on us which manage …
Read More »How the culture war could affect the Coronation
Until the death of the Queen, one source has told The Telegraph, plans for the Coronation were sketched out rather than signed-off. It has “deliberately been kept quite unplanned to ensure it can best reflect the climate at the time at which it happens”, they say. “There will be people …
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