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Charles III finally meets his destiny

King Charles III wears St Edward’s Crown at the coronation ceremony held inside Westminster Abbey in London Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

LONDON: Charles III on Saturday finally met his date with destiny after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II, as he was officially crowned king in the first coronation in Britain since 1953.

At 12.02pm exactly, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placed the solid gold St Edward’s Crown on Charles’s head as a sacred and ancient symbol of the monarch’s authority

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