When will King Charles III be crowned? What we know at this stage

Immediately after The Queen 's death on Thursday afternoon, Prince Charles became King Charles III. Under the Royal Family 's rules of accession, the Crown passed from his late mother to her 73-year-old son, and he will formally be proclaimed King on Saturday morning at 10am.

But King Charles's coronation, where he will take the oath and the Crown will be placed on his head by the Archbishop of Canterbury, is not expected to take place for some time. The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II occurred almost 16 months after she became Queen following the death of her father, George VI, to allow for a period of national mourning and for preparations to be made.

Plans for the coronation of the new King are assigned the codename Operation Golden Orb, although the Palace reportedly does not discuss plans for the coronation of a new monarch while the current incumbent is still alive as a matter of respect. While these plans have not yet been made public, the last coronation provides an insight into what we could expect from the forthcoming ceremony.

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Will the new King have the same Crown placed on his head as his mother seven decades ago, and will he brought to the coronation in the same gold leaf coach in which he travelled as a small child to his mother's ceremony? "The coronation ceremony, an occasion for pageantry and celebration, but it is also a solemn religious ceremony, has remained essentially the same over a thousand years," the Royal Family's website says.

"For the last 900 years, the ceremony has taken place at Westminster Abbey, London. The service is conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose task