On September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II died at the age of 96 in her Balmoral castle in Scotland. A death that ended more than 70 years of reign, a record within the British monarchy. His state funeral took place on September 19 in Westminster Abbey, which was attended by no less than 2,000 guests. The queen’s coffin was buried in St. George’s Chapel in Windsor alongside her parents, her sister Margaret and her husband, Prince Philip.

In the process, Prince Charles, who has long been nicknamed “the trainee” was proclaimed king, making his wife Camilla Parker-Bowles, his queen consort.

A few months before her disappearance, Elizabeth II had announced her desire for her second wife to become queen consort in a letter which had put an end to all debate. “And when, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes king, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support you have given me,” she wrote.

On May 6, 2023, the father of Princes Harry and William will be crowned in a ceremony that will be watched by millions of viewers. “Queen Elizabeth had a grandiose coronation lasting more than 4 hours. If the protocol will remain very present for that of Charles, as for any royal event, the ceremony will however be simpler”, told us the historian Kévin Guillot, author of the British Monarchy site and to add: “At a time of a major economic crisis, and to correspond to Charles’s wishes to set up a more modern monarchy while respecting traditions, Charles’s will certainly be shorter and less lavish with, for example, fewer guests”.

Prince Harry, in conflict with his father since his withdrawal from the British royal family, should however be present at the coronation of the latter. His wife, ex-actress Meghan Markle, will not be present, as revealed in a press release from Buckingham Palace.