King's coronation order of service in full including music and readings

The historic Coronation of King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla will take place in front of an audience of millions on Saturday.

The ceremony, which is being held at Westminster Abbey, will be watched by around 2,000 invited guests as well as millions of others across the globe on screen.

The King and Queen will leave Buckingham Palace at 10.20am ahead of the ceremony which will start at 11am. It will include five main elements; the Recognition; the Oath; the Anointing; the Investiture and Crowning; and the Enthronement and Homage, as well as the Queen Consort’s coronation.

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The ceremony will end at 1pm and will be followed by another procession from Westminister Abbey back to Buckingham Palace.

The full order of service for the coronation ceremony has now been announced. Here it is in full...

When William, Duke of Normandy, defeated King Harold at Hastings in 1066, he was determined that he should be seen as the legitimate king of England. He set his sights on being crowned in the new Abbey Church that Edward the Confessor had built beside his Palace at Westminster. For almost a thousand years, Westminster Abbey, with the Shrine of St Edward, King and Confessor, at its heart, has remained the place of coronation for our Monarchs.

The rite of Coronation in England, which is really a series of ancient rituals, has its roots in the ninth century and was codified in the fourteenth in a book called the Liber Regalis, which the Abbey still possesses. It was further modified over the following centuries, adapting to changing needs.

Today’s service draws on that long tradition, set once again within the context of the Eucharist, which is the