Caribbean diaspora play key function in King Charles III’s coronation
Loop Information- 4 members of the UK’s Caribbean diaspora performed a key function within the coronation of King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen consort.
Baroness Floella Benjamin, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, carried the Sovereign’s Sceptre forward of the King’s arrival.
“It was a very magnificent expertise carrying the Coronation Sceptre with Dove, which represents peace, mercy, equality and love which is all the things I consider in ❤️,” the Member of the Home of Lords and former tv presenter wrote on Twitter following the ceremony.
Guyana born Baroness, Valerie Amos, participated in King Charles III’s Recognition Ceremony at the beginning of the coronation.
“I right here current unto you King Charles, your undoubted King. Wherefore all you who’re come today to do your homage and repair, are you keen to do the identical?” she requested the King,” she learn.
The attendees all replied: “God save King Charles.”
The Jamaica-born Bishop of Dover, Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin, offered Queen Camilla with The Queen’s Sceptre with Cross and The Queen’s Rod with Dove.
British-Jamaican baritone singer and composer, Roderick Williams, sang the ‘Confortare’ anthem, which was a throw-back to the coronation of Charles III’s grandfather George VI.
A number of Caribbean leaders together with the Prime Ministers of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua and Barbuda and St Kitts and Nevis had been on the ceremony to witness the coronation.