Prince Charles became king the moment his mother took her last breath at Balmoral Castle in Scotland. There was a ceremony for him two days after Elizabeth II’s death in September. But that was a somber bit of business conducted by the Accession Council. The May 6 coronation is the big event, in which the 74-year-old Charles III will be crowned before 2,200 guests at Westminster Abbey and paraded through the streets of London in a royal show of British pageantry. Here is everything you need to know ahead of the big event. Read more: https://wapo.st/3HH2krh. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

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