He will travel in a carriage and wear the Imperial State Crown, while Camilla, in the famous Diamond Diadem, will reuse her coronation dress.
The King in the Imperial State Crown and the Queen in her coronation dress following the coronation in May
The changes were adopted due to her decreasing mobility as she neared 100, coupled with the pandemic, back-to-back State Openings due to a general election in 2019, and a diary clash with Ascot in 2017. Charles reads the Queen’s Speech as he sits next to the Imperial State Crown during the State Opening of Parliament last year
It is the first time a British King has opened Parliament for more than 70 years, since Charles’s grandfather George VI in 1950.
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