London: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif arrived in London to attend King Charles III’s coronation.
At Saturday’s central London event, 2,000 guests, including royalty and world leaders, will line the route to and from Buckingham Palace.
The UK’s “most significant” security operation for King Charles’ coronation will involve over 29,000 police officers.
The prime minister said he was going to the Kingdom whose leaders are “great friends of Pakistan” before leaving.
“The UK-Pakistan relations rooted in shared history & multifaceted bonds. Which have grown stronger over the decades,” the prime minister tweeted.
“I’ll also attend the Commonwealth leaders’ summit and meet with other world leaders bilaterally,” the prime minister said.
The prime minister will return on Monday and meet his elder brother, Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz supremo Nawaz Sharif.
The coronation procession will include thousands of ceremonial troops from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.
Dress rehearsals held overnight Tuesday–Wednesday.
Operation Golden Orb will use rooftop snipers, undercover officers, airport-style scanners & sniffer dogs. As well as a no-fly zone over central London to protect the abbey’s route.
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, will urge “all persons of goodwill in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the other realms and the territories to make their homage, in heart and voice, to their undoubted king, defender of all”.
“All who so desire, in the abbey, and elsewhere, say together: I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law,” reads the service order. God help me.”
British and Canadian parliamentarians swear allegiance to the monarch when they take office.
