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Media reaction to the coronation of King Charles III Last year, Monitor looked at the coverage of the death of Queen Elizabeth II around the world. More recently, how was Charles III’s coronation seen in the key countries of Russia, Iran and China? Our regional teams report.
Russia: “big coronation scandal” Rossiya 1’s main evening TV news programme, Vesti, took a negative view of the coronation of King Charles III in Westminster Abbey on 6 May, saying there had been a “big coronation scandal” – although it did not explain what this was.
For Vesti, Charles III had broken with tradition by inviting female priests, upsetting monarchists. There had been problems with placing the crown on his head and the Koh-i-noor diamond had been removed from Camilla's crown to avoid offending India.
“The coronation should have been a grand show uniting the nation if only via TV,” but this ambition had – Vesti implied – been undermined by some celebrities withdrawing from the coronation concert.
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The programme went on to highlight the cost of the ceremony amid the UK's “severest economic crisis for half a century”. It said that the British were “forbidden” to object to this, saying that “anyone who tried to stage a protest was taken away by the police”.
Russia’s Vesti news bulletin covering the coronation
The Koh-i-noor diamond had been removed from Camilla's crown to avoid offending India
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