The coronation of Charles III is scheduled on May 6, but full-scale preparations are already underway.While people are preparing to celebrate, holding a big traditional ceremony, the UK budget is also bracing - for a major blow, since the coronation will be funded by British taxpayers.According to some calculations, the ceremony alone will cost around £100 million ($124 m). Moreover, according to Department for Culture, Media and Sport calculations, the addition of Bank Holiday weekend will cost the country roughly £2.4 billion (almost $3 billion).Follow Sputnik's gallery to learn more about the upcoming event!
Queen Elisabeth II died in September 2022 at the age of 96, with her reign being the longest in British history, lasting for over 70 years. After she passed way, her son - Prince Charles inherited the throne.
The coronation of Charles III is scheduled on May 6, but full-scale preparations are already underway.
While people are preparing to celebrate, holding a big traditional ceremony, the UK budget is also bracing - for a major blow, since the coronation will be funded by British taxpayers.
According to some calculations, the ceremony alone will cost around £100 million ($124 m). Moreover, according to Department for Culture, Media and Sport calculations, the addition of Bank Holiday weekend will cost the country roughly £2.4 billion (almost $3 billion).
Follow Sputnik's gallery to learn more about the upcoming event!
Tourists sit on a Coronation Tour Bus, in London. The May 6 coronation is luring royal fans and far-flung visitors fascinated by the ceremonial spectacle — and drama — of the monarchy and eager to experience a piece of British history. Tour companies, shops and restaurants are rolling out the red carpet, whether it's a decked-out bus tour of London's top sights boasting high tea or merchandise running from regal to tat.
Philip Hamond, designer florist at the Dorchester Hotel, works alongside a display showing a Coronation themed cake and floral arrangements in London. The Dorchester Hotel, long a favorite with royals and celebrities, concocted a lavish, five-tier coronation cake and put up theater-style draping across its facade to re-create the decorations that it used to mark Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953 in preparation for King Charles III's coronation.
Yeoman Warder stand guard during the opening ceremony of the Tower of London, to the public as they wear their new uniform with changes to reflect Britain's King Charles III’s insignia ahead of his coronation.
A worker paints the finish on official chinaware in a pottery in Stoke on Trent. A range of official chinaware produced in Stoke-on-Trent by Royal Collection Trust, a department of the Royal Household, is already on sale.
A facade mimicking the 1953 coronation decor by Oliver Messel, decorates the Dorchester Hotel in London, Thursday.
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