The King has commissioned an ornate screen that will give him more privacy than his predecessors during the most sacred part of the Coronation service, when he is anointed with holy oil.
He will be surrounded on three sides by the embroidered anointing screen, which has been created by a team of more than 150 people over the past few months to a Commonwealth-themed design, created by the iconographer Aidan Hart.
With the open side facing the High Altar, the King will be out of sight of the congregation inside Westminster Abbey for his private moment with God, in a way that his mother and grandfather were not at their coronations. They were both anointed beneath a canopy that left them visible to all around them.
