4 December 2022, 17:55

The King’s crown has been moved from the Tower of London to a secret location forward of Charles’s coronation in Could.

St Edward’s Crown weighs greater than 2kg and incorporates 444 treasured and non-precious stones. It’s made from 22-carat gold.

Usually the centrepiece of the Crown Jewels on the Tower of London, the accent has been moved to an undisclosed location forward of the coronation on Could 6, 2023.

The affair is predicted to be a muted one in a press release of function for the King’s “slimmed-down” monarchy.

It is thought the King’s ceremony will final only one hour. The Queen’s, in June 1953, lasted greater than three.

It has additionally been recommended that the visitor record will probably be slashed from 8,000 to round 2,000.

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VIPs will probably be allowed a extra relaxed costume code of fits as an alternative of ceremonial robes, provisional blueprints recommended in October.

The king will probably be 74 when he’s topped, making him the oldest monarch in British historical past.

Earlier than him King William IV was 64 when he took the crown in 1890.

A palace supply informed the Day by day Mirror two months in the past: “The King could be very conscious of the struggles felt by fashionable Britons so will see his needs carried via that though his coronation ceremony ought to keep proper and true to the long-held traditions of the previous, it also needs to be consultant of a monarchy in a contemporary world.

“The King has lengthy been an advocate of a streamlined of slimmed-down monarchy and this challenge may actually be stated to suit together with his imaginative and prescient.”