United Kingdom prepares for the Coronation of King Charles

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 5 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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King Charles III will be officially crowned in a magnificent and deeply religious ceremony on Saturday when thousands will gather at Westminster Abbey and millions will watch from around the world. Charles has been heir to the throne for more than 70 years and instantly became King when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II died last September. Anderson Cooper is live from right outside Buckingham Palace along with CNN Royal Correspondent Max Foster and CNN Royal Historian Kate Williams to discuss all the pomp and circumstance around the event.

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0:00.0	And good evening from London in less than two days.
0:03.5	And for the first time in nearly 70 years, this country will crown a new monarch.
0:07.5	Saturday morning, Charles III accompanied by Queen Camilla will make his way in a procession
0:11.8	from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey for a ceremony last carried out for his mother,
0:17.0	Queen Elizabeth II, back in June of 1953.
0:20.6	70 years, in other words, for some, at least this is literally a once in a lifetime event.
0:25.7	People are certainly treating it that way.
0:27.2	They've been camping out along the procession route some for days now, wearing Union
0:30.8	Jacks, Royal Regalia, and other patriotic knick-knacks, young and old, sleeping under tarps,
0:36.1	intense, unmakeshift, cots.
0:38.1	And all around the city, everything from lanes to landmarks or decked in flags or lit
0:41.6	up large for the occasion.
0:43.4	To look at Big Bend there, 300 feet tall, embodying centuries of history as it's never been
0:47.9	seen before.
0:49.5	Images of the National Plants of England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, projected
0:53.6	on it.
0:54.6	And words dancing over, including four, until Queen Elizabeth died that had not been
0:58.5	heard since 1952.
1:00.7	God saved the King.
1:02.2	Not far from there, Westminster Abbey, security tight as it is all around this city, where
1:06.3	Saturday morning the King and Queen will arrive in a coach built for the King's mother,
1:10.3	on the 60th anniversary of her coronation.
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