Today marked the first day of rehearsals for the mounted regiments for King Charles III Coronation.
Members of the Household Mounted Regiments provided the escort for a number of royal Coaches from Buckingham palace up the mall.
This was to ensure timings and pacing was correct for the Coronation held on the 6 May 2023.
Eyewitness Mary O’Brien told the Conservative Post:
“It was spectacular already to see them. You’d have thought they’d been rehearsing for months already. They were perfect. The horses were so well behaved and the soldiers looked so smart. It makes you proud to be British.
“Nobody does it like us. I’m so excited for May 6th. God save the King!”
More than 6,000 men and women of the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces will participate in the historic Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla next month.
In the largest military ceremonial operation for 70 years sailors, soldiers and aviators from across the UK and the breadth of the Commonwealth will take part in two magnificent processions accompanying Their Majesties to and from Westminster Abbey, where the Coronation Service takes place.
Later in the day, military personnel will conduct a breath-taking Coronation flypast of more than 60 aircraft from the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force flying over The Mall in Central London.
From military bases in all corners of the country and on His Majesty’s ships at sea, gun salutes will sound out to herald the moment when The King is crowned. Across the coming weeks, Armed Forces personnel around the country will be busy rehearsing for their role in a display of pageantry, professionalism and pride to honour their new Commander-in-Chief, The King.
Below is an image of Drum Major’s new State Ceremonial Uniform of the household Division, taken at The Royal Military Chapel (The Guards’ Chapel) in London.
The Royal Military Chapel, or the Guards’ Chapel as it is more generally known, stands in Birdcage Walk on the south side of St. James’s Park and is the spiritual home of the Household Division. The present chapel was built in 1963 but rose from the ashes of the original chapel, destroyed by a flying bomb on 18th June 1944.
