A new screen will provide "absolute privacy" during the most sacred part of next week's coronation service for King Charles, ensuring the eyes of the world will not see the monarch being anointed, Buckingham Palace and its makers said.
A detail of some of the Commonwealth countries' names stitched onto the anointing screen which will be used in the coronation of King Charles III, is pictured in the Chapel Royal at St James's Palace in London, Britain April 24, 2023. The most important moment in the coronation is the"unction", the sacred act of anointing a monarch with holy oil, which can be traced as far back as the 7th and 8th centuries, and signals that the monarch has been chosen by God.
The three-sided screen will shield Charles when he is anointed with holy oil, consecrated in Jerusalem, on his hands, breast and head, shortly before he is crowned at London's Westminster Abbey on May 6. "Previously, it was a canopy over the top, which actually didn't provide real privacy, it was more figurative," said Nick Gutfreund, who designed and created the frame. "Now this three-sided screen provides absolute privacy."
Its central design, selected by Charles, is a tree with the names of all 56 countries of the Commonwealth, the international organization which he also heads.
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