What are coronation banquets and why aren't they held anymore?
12th April 2023
King Charles III is making considerable changes to the coronation to modernise the ceremony and recognise the monarchy’s position in the twenty-first century. Both the coronation ceremony and procession will look quite different from his mother’s coronation in 1953.
However, Charles is not the only monarch to make changes to coronation traditions.Â
Historically newly–crowned monarchs…