[ad_1] The eyes of nearly 30 million people across the globe were fixed on them.But this is how newly crowned King Charles III and Queen Camilla saw
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The eyes of nearly 30 million people across the globe were fixed on them.
But this is how newly crowned King Charles III and Queen Camilla saw their momentous Coronation celebrations.
In a special series of behind-the-scenes photos released by Buckingham Palace, the royal couple on the palace balcony is shown peering out from under their crowns to a sea of more than one million loyal subjects watching the RAF Red Arrows fly overhead, leaving a quintessential trail of red, white, and blue.
The official snapshots also captured delightful moments in which four of the eight Page Boys — including future king-to-be Prince George — laughed and clowned around on the balcony.
The balcony appearance has become a centrepiece of royal events stretching back decades.
However, this time the line-up was very different, reflecting the new-blended family of King Charles and Queen Camilla — and the changing times.
The disgraced Prince Andrew was missing as was Prince Harry who left Westminster Abbey to go straight to the airport.
Instead Camilla’s sister, Annabel Elliot, her grandsons Master Gus and Master Louis Lopes Master Freddy Parker Bowles and her great-nephew Master Arthur Elliot were included.
The slimmed-down working royal’s team headed by the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children waved to the crowds before retiring for a private lunch to eat the now infamous spinach, broad bean and tarragon “quiche” the piqued French have quipped is actually a “tart”.
Prince Harry was invited to join the family for the quiet gathering away from the cameras but declined, preferring to rush home to spend time with his son Archie on his fourth birthday.
Still, around 10 million patriotic Brits made history of their own with one of the largest-ever community get-togethers known as the Big Lunch.
Family, friends and neighbours were encouraged on Sunday to join 67,000 luncheon street parties registered to be held across five continents including Australia, Canada and Hong Kong.
Queen Camilla is patron of the Big Lunch, a charity function to fight loneliness, which is held annually in June, but brought forward this year for the King’s Coronation.
And on Sunday morning church services across the UK were invited to include the Coronation anthem composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber which was performed publicly for the first time as the King was enthroned.
The sheet music was been sent to 6000 churches, so they could perform it during their own services.
Following the Coronation, watched by a global audience of 27 million people, thousands of wellwishers left messages for the new King on social and mainstream media platforms.
Among them was The Duchess of York, Prince Andrew’s ex-wife Sarah Ferguson, who sent her “sincerest congratulations” after her own lunch party starring the late Queen Elizabeth’s corgis Sandy and Muick.
One coronation moment still being talked about is the attention-grabbing role of the stylishly-dressed woman bearing the sword during official procession through Westminster Abbey.
It was Penny Mordaunt, Leader of the House of Commons, Conservative MP and a contender for the Prime Minister’s job last year, until she was knocked out of the running by Liz Truss. Ms Mordaunt is the first woman in history to carry the sword and captivated viewers with her elegant outfit designed by atelier Safiyaa.
Author and columnist Caitlin Moran cheekily commented on the buzz around Ms Mordaunt’s role, saying: “Penny Mordaunt’s sword is the ‘Pippa Middleton’s Bum’ of the Coronation.”
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