How much the King’s coronation cost the UK tax payer revealed

The King’s coronation outgo the UK payer a whopping £72 million, authoritative accounts person revealed.

This fig includes £50.3 cardinal from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which coordinated the lawsuit successful May and £21.7 cardinal from the Home Office for policing it.

Charles was crowned astatine Westminster Abbey successful a ceremonial attended by dignitaries from astir the world.

A star-studded performance astatine Windsor Castle took spot the pursuing night.

The DCMS yearly study and accounts said the section ‘successfully delivered connected the cardinal play of His Majesty King Charles III’s Coronation, enjoyed by galore millions some successful the UK and crossed the globe.’

The £72 cardinal was inactive importantly little than the £162 cardinal it outgo to clasp Queen Elizabeth II’s ceremonial and events during the play of nationalist mourning.

The coronation was described astatine the clip arsenic a ‘slimmed-down affair’ and accounts amusement an ‘underspend’ related to the coronation of astir £2.8m.

DCMS insisted it was a ‘once-in-a-generation infinitesimal which provided an juncture for the full state to travel unneurotic successful celebration, and offered a unsocial accidental to observe and fortify our nationalist individuality and showcase the UK to the world’.

There had been disapproval astatine the nationalist backing of the lawsuit astatine a clip erstwhile the state was dealing with a outgo of surviving crisis.

A YouGov canvass a period earlier the Coronation showed 52% of Londoners did not judge the Coronation should beryllium paid for by taxpayers.

Campaign radical Republic called the Coronation a ‘pointless, archaic parade’, reports the BBC and said the wealth spent could person paid for escaped schoolhouse meals.

Chief enforcement Graham Smith said: ‘At a clip erstwhile truthful galore radical are struggling with the outgo of surviving crisis, it is shameful that Charles insisted connected this pointless extravaganza.’

There was anticipation the coronation would boost the system but it really contracted successful the period of May 2023.

However, according to experts this was mostly down to the outgo of introducing a nationalist vacation for the event, Sky News reports.

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