Charles III on Saturday at long last met his date with fate after a lifetime as main beneficiary of his late mother Sovereign Elizabeth II, as he was formally delegated lord in the principal crowning ceremony in England beginning around 1953.
As a sacred and ancient symbol of the monarch's authority, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placed the solid gold St. Edward's Crown on Charles' head at precisely 12:02 pm (1102 GMT).
Outside, bells tolled in celebration at churches all over the country, and ceremonial gun salutes were fired across land and sea.The majority of the buildup to the ceremony, which is the religious confirmation of Charles's accession following Queen Elizabeth II's death in September, has been celebratory.
However, before Charles, 74, and Queen Camilla, 75, left Buckingham Palace on the Diamond Jubilee State Coach for a gloomy procession to the abbey, police arrested dozens of protesters using new powers that were rushed into law to suppress direct action groups.
Six of the organizers of the anti-monarchy movement Republic, which advocates for an elected head of state, were reportedly detained, while 19 of the organizers of the climate activists Just Stop Oil were reportedly detained.
Nevertheless, on the procession route, dozens of Republic activists waved banners proclaiming: Not Your King." Both Basic freedoms Watch and Acquittal Global voiced worry at the captures. " This is the kind of thing you would hope to find in Moscow, not London," HRW said.
London's Metropolitan Police had exactly 11,500 officials in the city in one of its greatest ever security activities. It has stated that protests do not cross its "extremely low threshold."
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