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King Charles had been ‘anxious’ before his coronation, the BBC said.
He recounted the night before his mother’s coronation when he was only four years old in an interview for the documentary Coronation Girls: “I remember it all so well then, because I remember my sister and I had bath time in the evening.”
“My mother would practice wearing the crown by coming up during bath time.
“You have to get used to how heavy [the crown] is, I’ve never forgotten, I can still remember it vividly,” he recalled.
“It is very important to wear it for a certain amount of time, because you get used to it then,” he said, addressing his anxiety over the weight of the crown.
“But the big one that you’re crowned with, the St Edward’s Crown, it weighs 5lbs.”
Before deciding on King Charles III, Grant also remembered a discussion he had with Charles over the title he would accept.
Since his grandfather, George VI, had also selected a different title for his accession, there had been conjecture before to the coronation that he might have chosen George VII instead. For ‘continuity’ reasons, George VI adopted the name even though his real name was Albert Frederick Arthur George.
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