King of England III. Westminster abbeyIt also includes an overwhelming military parade if the rain permits, and a concert at Windsor Castle, in which some 7,000 soldiers and 60 British Armed Forces aircraft will participate.
According to estimates made by the British media, the historic event could cost around $100 million. 100 million pounds (113 million euros), almost double that of his mother, Isabel IIIt was the most expensive ceremony ever in the more than 1,000-year history of the British monarchy: £1.57m, around 56m (63m euros) at the current exchange rate. And this despite the fact that Carlos reduced the number of guests (2,200 compared to his mother’s number of more than 8,000), and also shortened the duration of the ceremony and the route of the processions.
The rising cost is huge security deployment It will be held for events that will be attended by a hundred heads of state from all over the world. About 30,000 police attended the device, which was launched this week in London. About 11,500 of them will be on duty this Saturday, when the coronation takes place. “It will be the largest mobilization of police officers in a single day in decades,” said Ade Adelekan, deputy police chief. metropolitan policeignoring the use cameras with facial recognition technology To identify potentially suspicious persons. Also snipers, patrols on the Thames and airspace restrictions in the capital both this Friday and Saturday.
bad moment
The payment comes at a very difficult time for the country’s economy. inflation More than 10%, the highest rate in decades, and discontent among workers, whose livelihood was growing, turned into protests and strikes in the civil service.
Perhaps this is why most Britons disagree that the coronation should be paid for by the Government. Specifically, 51% of Managers Rishi Altar According to a recent YouGov survey, 32% of those who think they should bear the costs and 18% of those who don’t know or don’t respond should not.
“Carlos says he wants to modernize the monarchy. If he’s serious, he can start by paying the taxes on his mother’s huge inheritance: racehorses, paintings, and more. And he can pay for his own coronation. After all, do it,” he wrote in ‘The Guardian. norman baker, former Liberal Democrat MP, Privy Council member, and author of ‘Things the royal family doesn’t want you to know’. This personal wealth According to the annual list of the UK’s richest people published by ‘The Sunday Times’, the king’s cost of 680m euros is double what was estimated for his mother. million euros
A Buckingham source told ‘The Sun’ that only ” television rights That cost will be more than met” and will also mean “a big boost for tourism.” And the Government defended the expense: “The government has always paid for the coronations. This is because the ruler is ours. President and it is important that we mark it correctly (…). It is right that we celebrate this moment in the life of our nation, and that we do it appropriately and in a way that the nation can come together and celebrate.” Oliver Dowden.
symbolic ritual
The coronation ceremony is not a necessary act for the monarch to initiate his reign. In fact, Carlos has been king since the moment his mother died on August 8. The coronation ceremony according to the professor Robert Hazelof the Constitutional Unit of the University College of London religious ritual It is affirmed as a tradition “going back 1000 years”, “symbolizing the descent of God’s grace to the new ruler”, “a source of national pride and celebration”, and “marking peaceful renewal at the apex of the Constitution”.
The United Kingdom is the only monarchy to retain this formality. Belgium, Luxembourg anyone Holland They never organized this ceremony. Inside DenmarkThe 1849 Constitution ruled that coronation was incompatible with the new order and that the only time the crown was used was to place it in the coffins of deceased monarchs during their burials. Inside Sweden It was stopped at the end of the 19th century for economic reasons and Norway At the beginning of the XX he outlawed them. Inside SpainThere has been no coronation ceremony since the unification of Castile and Aragon, and Hazell thinks the UK could also interrupt the ceremony “without any change in law”. “The concept of the coronation oath modified ceremony devotion, religious or secular, without coronation,” he adds.