As King Charles prepares for his crown, we look at other coronations around the world

"The UK is now the only European country to hold coronations: Spain’s last monarch to be crowned was Joan III of Navarre, way back in 1555; Denmark, Sweden, and Norway had all ditched the ceremony by 1906."

Crown in the hands of the pastor at the time of the coronation

The so-called “cost-of-living coronation”in the UK will actually be a three-day extravaganza, including two grand processions and a star-studded concert with a laser light show at Windsor Castle.

On Saturday, May 6, in Westminster Abbey, the Archbishop of Canterbury will place a crown of solid gold on King Charles III’s head. St Edward’s Crown weighs 2.23kg — equivalent to five or six family-size cans of baked beans! For most of the ceremony, the king will sport the less weighty (1.04kg) Imperial State Crown, carrying the controversial Cullinan II diamond from Britain’s Transvaal colony.