The 5th of May, 2023 marks a special day for Great Britain because they crowned a new monarch after 70 years, King Charles and Queen Camilla. The coronation took place in Westminster Abbey. Several figures from all around the world showed up to pay their respects to the new king and a new age for Great Britain.
Despite everything that is happening all around the world, key figures such as US First Lady Jill Biden and her granddaughter Finnegan, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, and many others came for the coronation of the new king. Even after centuries old, the British monarch continues to showcase its world wide impact as a new monarch is crowned, and the significance of the ceremony that has taken place for decades.
The importance of the ceremony extends beyond United Kingdom’s sovereignty as the King is also the supreme governor of the English church. All of this culminates in a luxuriously extravagant affair which despite it’s praise, did receive fairly expected criticism as well. Some are unsatisfied with the spending of millions of British pounds of taxpayer money on a ceremony while a rampant cost of living crisis continues to escalate, and others favor keeping this system as the family already became a symbol of the nation.
After all is said and done, the coronation of King Charles III was a success – uneventful but uniform. Some have issued their concerns and objections regarding the lavishness of the event, however the coronation of a new monarch is a generational affair, which in most people’s eyes, could excuse the lack of restraint in spending. Now let us hope that the King will inherit his mother’s longevity for a long and prosperous reign.
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