Big lunch, prom in Windsor… After the party, it’s party time

After several difficult days, between rehearsals, receptions, garden parties and the official coronation in Westminster Abbey, the 74- and 75-year-old royal couple will again organize a private reception at Windsor Castle (west London) on Sunday before attending the concert given to actor Hugh Bonneville ( Town centre).

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Performances will feature Lionel Richie, Katy Perry, pianist Lang Lang, opera singer Andrea Bocelli, and a choir of over 300 people from very diverse backgrounds. But none of the British newspaper headlines.

Actor Tom Cruise is also set to appear in the video, and even Winnie the Pooh has been announced, possibly following in the footsteps. Paddington Bear, star of a video of him having tea with Queen Elizabeth II at the opening of the Jubilee Gala in June 2022.

Flags and decorations

On Monday, the royal couple did not plan any public appearances. He delegated to other royals a “big lunch” and neighborhood parties planned across the country on Sunday.

Prince Edward and his wife Sophie will travel to Cranley in Surrey (south), Princess Anne and her husband Tim Lawrence will be in Swindon, in the Cotswolds (west) and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, their daughters Prince Andrew, who has become an outcast in the familyannounced in Windsor for lunch with charities.

Thousands of Britons are expected to attend these banquets, with many slogans and decorations in the colors of the British flag. But 72% of the population, little motivated by this coronation, do not intend to take part in any celebration, According to a YouGov poll released on Friday.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who actually read a verse from the Bible on Saturday at the coronation of Charles IIIIt planned to invite Ukrainian volunteers, refugees and youth groups to Downing Street for a post-coronation lunch. In a press release, he hailed the “wonderful occasion, in a spirit of unity and hope for the future.”

Monday off

On Monday, a public holiday specially granted for the coronation, Britons were encouraged to take part in voluntary labors.

Saturday’s religious coronation in London of Charles III was a landmark day, with all the pomp associated with major events in the monarchy.

Clad in the heavy ceremonial robes of the ancestors, Charles III was welcomed, sworn in, anointed and crowned in Westminster Abbey in front of 2,300 guests, in a millennia-old Anglican ritual updated on the sidelines. It was the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the first clergyman of the Anglican religion, who placed on his head the heavy crown of St. Edward, made of solid gold and set with sapphires.

The king’s second wife, Camilla, was also blessed and crowned.

Accompanied by a spectacular procession of 4,000 soldiers, the crowned couple returned in a gilded 18th-century coach to Buckingham Palace, where they greeted thousands of fans who braved the rain to watch the procession and their backs on the famous balcony.

Charles III, the oldest ever crowned British monarch, waited 70 years for this moment, which is the length of his mother Elizabeth II’s reign. When he died last September, he became king of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth countries, his coronation marking his role.