Watch: When Queen Elizabeth II was coronated in June 1953

King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth’s eldest son, is about to be proclaimed as Britain’s new monarch on Saturday in London. The longest reigning Queen handed away on the age of 96 on Thursday

The King will face a ceremonial physique often called the Accession Council at St James’s Palace within the capital metropolis. However, the coronation is prone to happen after a major delay owing to the necessity to put together for the frilly perform.

For occasion, Queen Elizabeth, who ascended to the throne following her father’s demise in February 1952, was not coronated because the Queen till June 1953.

Charles will probably be coronated because the thirteenth monarch on the Westminster Abbey in London, the place he bore witness to his mom’s coronation 69 years in the past.

On June 2, 1953, the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II occurred, along with her husband Prince Philip by her facet and her son, the 4-year-old Prince Charles watching from the royal gallery, alongside together with his grandmother Queen Mother and aunt Princess Margaret. The Queen’s second baby Princess Anne, barely three years previous then, was not allowed to attend the perform.

In this June 2, 1953 file picture, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II sporting the bejewelled Imperial Crown and carrying the Orb and Scepter with Cross, leaves Westminster Abbey, London, on the finish of her coronation ceremony. (AP Photo/File)

In her guide ‘Elizabeth The Queen The Life Of A Modern Monarch’, creator Sally Bedell Smith writes that the Queen’s preparation for coronation took up a great a part of her first 12 months on the throne. “She met several times with Geoffrey Fisher, the ninety-ninth Archbishop of Canterbury, who instructed her in the spiritual significance of the various rites and gave her prayers to say. She practiced her lines and her steps every day in the ballroom at Buckingham Palace. Tied to her shoulders were sheets stitched together and augmented with weights to simulate her heavy robe and train. She sat at her desk wearing the five-pound St. Edward’s Crown dating from the coronation of Charles II, and listening to recordings of her father’s coronation,” Smith wrote within the guide.

Most of the three-hour service was lined stay on tv, one of many first royal ceremonies to be accomplished so.

On the day of the perform, the Queen travelled to the enduring Westminister Abbey in a Gold State Coach pulled by eight horses, sporting “her great-great-grandmother’s diadem and a coronation gown of white satin with short sleeves and a heart neckline… embroidered in pale coloured silk, gold and silver threads, semiprecious stones, seed pearls, and shimmering crystals.”

As part of the ceremony, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who performed the service, offered the Queen to almost 7,500 distinguished company seated on the 4 sides of the Abbey. “As the occupants of each quadrant cried “God Save Queen Elizabeth!” adopted by a trumpet fanfare, she gave a slight neck bow and gradual half curtsy, the one time she would ever make that twin gesture as Queen,” famous Smith.

She was then administered the Coronation Oath, which the Royal Household web site described as follows:

Madam, is your Majesty keen to take the Oath?

And The Queen answering: I’m keen.

The Archbishop: Will you solemnly promise and swear to control the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and the opposite Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, in accordance with their respective legal guidelines and customs?

Queen Elizabeth’s coronation was held within the Abbey on 2 June 1953. During the service, she took a solemn oath to rule in accordance with regulation, to train justice with mercy, and to keep up the Church of England – guarantees she saved faithfully all through her life. pic.twitter.com/jXXqKlsx77

— Westminster Abbey (@wabbey) September 8, 2022

The Queen: I solemnly promise so to do.

The Archbishop. Will you to your energy trigger Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all of your judgements?

The Queen: I’ll.

The Archbishop: Will you to the utmost of your energy keep the Laws of God and the true career of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your energy keep within the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by regulation? Will you keep and protect inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, self-discipline, and authorities thereof, as by regulation established in England? And will you protect unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there dedicated to their cost, all such rights and privileges, as by regulation do or shall appertain to them or any of them?

The Queen: I’ll.”

Later, the archbishop blessed the hefty St. Edward’s Crown manufactured from strong gold and set with 444 semiprecious stones and positioned it on the Queen’s head, the place it “momentarily dropped before rising again”.

Later, as she sat on the throne, sporting the Imperial Crown and holding the jewelled Orb and Scepter with Cross in hand, to obtain homage from the company, Prince Charles exclaimed from his seat within the gallery: “Look, it’s Mummy!”

His aunt Princess Margaret was much less excited, recollects Smith. “I’ve lost my father, and I’ve lost my sister,” is how she described her emotions concerning the occasions.