Invitations to the May 6 service at Westminster Abbey in central London have been extended to more than 450 British Empire Medal (BEM) recipients.
More than 850 community and charity representatives from across the UK have been invited to the King’s coronation.
Many recipients attending the coronation were “instrumental in providing services and support to their local communities during the Covid-19 lockdowns”, Buckingham Palace said. Other BEM recipient invitees include Dawn Wood, a constable with Essex Police’s marine unit, who became the second fastest woman to row solo across the Atlantic in February 2019, after a 3,000-mile journey from the Canary Islands to Barbados in 51 days.
The retired firefighter helped set up a call centre where people with Covid-19 could call for a food parcel and have it delivered to their home, and he later established a community food pantry in Fraserburgh. The invitation to the May 6 coronation of King Charles III, which will be issued to more than 2,000 guests
The other 200 are from the Scout Association, Girlguiding UK, St John Ambulance and the National Citizen Service and were nominated by the Government.
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