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A royal turnoff
Attendance and viewing figures for the coronation show a slump in support for Charles Windsor, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Charles and Camilla Windsor during the State Banquet held at Buckingham Palace in London, September 26, 2023
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OFFICIAL figures I obtained under freedom of information rules show a maximum 130,000 people went to watch King Charles’s coronation procession on May 6 this year. By comparison 215,000 attended his mother’s funeral procession, showing declining enthusiasm for royalty.
Press reports only described “tens of thousands” cheering on Charles and Camilla — the way no official estimates of turnout were given made me suspect the figure was low.
So I asked the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which was responsible for coronation crowd management, if it had more accurate figures.
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