REPLAY – Charles III is crowned king in first UK coronation since 1953

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Charles succeeded his mother Queen Elizabeth when she died last September. At 74, he becomes the oldest British monarch to have the 360-year-old St Edward’s Crown placed on his head as he sits upon a 14th century throne at London’s Westminster Abbey. Watched by about 100 heads of state and dignitaries including US first lady Jill Biden, Charles follows 40 predecessors in being crowned at the abbey – which has staged all the coronations since William the Conqueror back in 1066.

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