What happens before and after the coronation?
The horse-drawn Diamond Jubilee State Coach—comparatively brand-spankin’-new at only nine years old—will ferry Charles and Camilla to Westminster Abbey in what’s known as the King’s Procession, while they’ll return to Buckingham Palace afterward in the 261-year-old Gold State Coach, which has been used for every coronation since King William IV‘s in 1831.
For the return trip—which will be an “enormous procession,” according to coronation…