King Charles ascends to the throne | ABC News



The king sat on his throne for the first time after being crowned and Prince William paid tribute to his father on behalf of the royal family. SUBSCRIBE to ABC News on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2vZb6yP Latest Updates: http://abcnews.go.com/ Watch FULL EPISODES on Hulu: http://abcn.ws/3bzvQQn #news #coronation #kingcharlesiii #abcnews #uk

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32 comments

  1. Doesn't he become king the second QEII deperts? I mean as far as I understand the coronation is merely a formal ceremony. He doesn't actually ascend to the throne the day of his coronation. He already is king.

  2. the last monarch of Great Britain

  3. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear." -Mark Twain

  4. Even though it’s a ritual of coronation of today, it looks surreal as if it’s done in 15th century.

  5. Oh, for God's sake – COLOR TELEVISION DIDN'T EXIST IN 1953. Of course Elizabeth's coronation was in black and white.

  6. reminds me of the old tv ad for imperial margarine.

  7. 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

  8. “Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” ― Denis Diderot

  9. Never anything any less

  10. Diamond slippers on all

  11. “You must not make any idols. Don't make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water. Don't worship or serve idols of any kind, because I, the LORD, am your God. -the holy Bible

  12. Estimated public and private wealth. 40 trillion. No one has a God given right to rule.

  13. kind of funny they don't know their own words to the king they must read it from a book to say they for the new king

  14. Disgusting…. Now return all that you have stolen

  15. A prime example of the ocassioning of human nonsense.

  16. Miss the queen..

  17. Guess these broadcasters thing they have more important things to say than what goes on in the ceremony which everyone "tuned in" to see, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!

  18. Long live the King.

  19. He won't last long. William is waiting in the wing

  20. Throne is British English. Thrown is American!

  21. JOKE, England proves to be the biggest joke of the world. Lets go to Disney World and do the same thing, how stupid

  22. Might want to fix the title, guys.

  23. Refer to year 1776, we give no F***s about the british monarchy!!!!

  24. I bet diana would be regretting not being queen if she had lived.