“Operation Golden Orb” is reportedly shorter, smaller, and less expensive than the Queen’s ceremony.
As the royal family looks ahead to the future when the Queen’s reign ends, plans are being drawn up for her successor Prince Charles’ coronation – which will be markedly different than Her Majesty’s 1953 affair.
A source said there are “binders and binders” of paperwork about Charles’ coronation at Westminster Abbey – codenamed “Operation Golden Orb” – and that the coronation service was rewritten in recent years to modernize the language and shorten it. At the ceremony, Charles and wife Camilla are expected to be crowned side-by-side., altered to “reflect modern day Britain,” but will remain an Anglican service with the vows not expected to change.
It will be scaled back overall, not just in money spent but also in the length of the ceremony and in the number of attendees. The Queen had 8,251 in attendance; the Mail on Sunday reports Charles’ will have a maximum of 2,000. It took 16 months from Queen Elizabeth’s Accession Day on February 6, 1952, to her coronation on June 2, 1953, but Charles wishes to have his coronation ceremony within a year of his accession, sources say.
The ceremony will be “shorter, sooner, smaller, less expensive, and more representative of different community groups and faiths,” a source told the Mail on Sunday – and, though Charles is set to keep with tradition and have the ceremony be an Anglican service, there will be a place for other religions and Christian denominations, as well.Rachel Burchfield
Rachel Burchfield is a freelance writer whose primary interests are fashion and beauty, society and culture, and, most especially, the British Royal Family. She has worked with publications like ELLE, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, InStyle, and Glamour, and is the editor of What Meghan Wore, a site dedicated to the Duchess of Sussex's fashion, lifestyle, and work.
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