The BBC-produced concert will include a set piece called Lighting up the Nation, when iconic locations across the UK are lit up using projections, lasers, drones, and other lights.
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The Royal Family will then appear on the balcony of Buckingham Palace to bring the day to a close.įollowing on Sunday will be a Coronation Concert, live from Windsor Castle on TV and radio and with a star-studded cast of musicians and big names including Take That, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. The King and Queen Consort will arrive at Westminster Abbey in a procession from Buckingham Palace, known as The King's Procession.Īfter the service, Their Majesties along with other members of the Royal Family will go back to the palace in a larger procession, known as The Coronation Procession. Necker claimed that new taxes would be enough to make up for the deficit, but the Commoners, who were only too aware of the country’s expectations, were dissatisfied with such a mediocre discourse, and decided to take things into their own hands.No precise time has been announced yet, but the coronation service will take place in the morning of Saturday 6 May. This was followed by speeches by Barentin, the Keeper of the Seals, and Necker, the Minister of Finances, concerning the economic situation in the kingdom. As a peaceful king, he declared himself “the people’s greatest friend”. Louis XVI opened the session with a speech in which he reviewed the circumstances that had led to the convocation, and what he expected from the Estates General. The members of the Third Estate and a few of the Clergy and the Nobility would later constitute the first National Assembly.
The deputies were seated in rows around the edge. The king officiated from his position at the end of the hall beneath a majestic baldachin, with the queen and the princes of the blood around him. However, contrary to the depiction in the famous engraving, the hall was very small.
A temporary hall with columns had been built behind the Menus-Plaisirs building on Avenue de Paris. The convocation had been sent out on 5 July the previous year, assembling the Estates General for the first time since 1614. The solemn opening ceremony began on 5 May. For the first time in history a bishop was applauded in a church. The procession started at Notre-Dame, crossed the Place d’Armes, and finished at the church of Saint-Louis, where Monseigneur de La Fare, bishop of Nancy, stood at the pulpit and gave his famous speech in which he severely rebuked the luxury of the Court. The queen was wearing a gold and silver dress. On his hat he wore the Regent Diamond, which was the largest diamond in the kingdom. The king himself was wearing an overcoat of golden fabric and was surrounded by the most important Officers to the Crown. They were all holding a candle in their hand, except for those carrying the banners and the King’s Falconers. The deputies of the Third Estate (the Commoners) were the greatest in number, dressed in black with a gold and black overcoat. From all over France, 1,200 deputies had arrived for the event. On the last grand ceremony of the Ancien Régime was held in Versailles: the procession of the Estates General.
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