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King Charles III officially crowned in ancient ceremony at Westminster Abbey

King Charles III has been crowned in Britain’s biggest ceremonial event for seven decades, a sumptuous display of pageantry dating back 1000 years.

In front of a congregation of about 100 world leaders and a television audience of millions, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Church, slowly placed the 360-year-old St Edward’s Crown on Charles’ head as he sat upon a 14th-century throne in Westminster Abbey.

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