King Charles III's official coronation will be held Saturday. Here are the ceremony’s key stages, some of which are largely unchanged for 1,000 years.
, the only Western nation that still has a coronation ceremony. In Britain, such ceremonies are recorded as far back as 973 when Anglo-Saxon King Edgar was crowned in Bath Abbey.
The coronation isn’t the moment the monarch becomes king or queen. That moment happens automatically after. Rather, it symbolizes the conferring of God’s grace upon the sovereign, which is why it is part of a religious service. In centuries past, it was seen as granting the monarch the divine right to rule. It also represents an almost transactional deal: The monarch is blessed by the church and in return promises to protect the Protestant faith and to serve his subjects.
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