Yahoo Lifestyle King Charles Was So "Anxious" About This Surprising Aspect of Coronation Day
His late mom, Queen Elizabeth, also had the same fear.
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When you're about to be crowned the new King of England, there are a lot of reasons to be nervous, as the whole world is basically watching your every move. But King Charles wasn't worried about forgetting the words to his speech or tripping up the steps of Westminster Abbey. Instead, he was "anxious" about a surprising aspect that wouldn't even cross the average person's mind.
In a new PBS documentary, titled Coronation Girls—which follows a group of Canadian women who made the trip to the U.K. to see Charles get crowned just as they did 70 years ago for Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953—the King got candid about his one major fear: his crown wobbling.
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“It’s important to wear it for a certain amount of time because you get used to it then. But the big one that you are crowned with, the St. Edward's crown...is much heavier and taller. So there's always that feeling slightly anxious in case it wobbles," the King told the ladies per People, explaining the difference between the 5-pound St. Edward’s Crown and the lighter Imperial State Crown he also wore at the ceremony.
He added, “You have to look really straight ahead.”
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As it turns out, his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, also seemingly had a similar fear. Charles remembers her practicing wearing the crown ahead of her own coronation while giving him and his sister, Princess Anne, baths. “My mama used to come up at bath time wearing the crown to practice," he recalled. "Because you have to get used to how heavy it is. I've never forgotten. I can still remember it vividly."
Coronation Girls will premiere on PBS in Canada on December 26.
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