20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Coronation Route

Taking in The Mall, Admiralty Arch, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall and Parliament Square, the Coronation route which King Charles III will travel along on the 6th May 2023 will be familiar to millions of people.

Despite involving all of these famous London landmarks, there are many smaller sites along the route which are far less known… and in this video, I’d like to show you 20 of them!
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Chapters:

00:00 Intro
01:25 The Queen’s Nose
02:05 Cheeky Monkey
02:25 London’s Red Carpet
03:00 Nelson’s Fleet
03:28 The Dark Side of St James’s Park
04:35 The Inept Abdutor
05:34 Corgis & De Gaulle
06:20 The Lofty Duke
07:32 Giro’s Grave
09:15 HMS St Vincent
10:04 The National Police Memorial
10:27 Nosing Aroung
11:32 Drummond’s Drive-Through
12:34 Charlie’s Island
13:49 A Naughty Theatre & Forgotten Square
14:29 Where the King Lost His Head
15:00 Horse Guards Marks the Hour
15:46 Whitehall’s War Memorials
16:48 Statue Twins
17:32 St Margaret’s Church
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My video about Craig’s Court (London’s Forgotten Square):

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Credits:

London Nose image: Warden (Talk), Creative Commons

Drummond Drive in Bank image: Leonard Bentley (Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/31363949@N02/7764494452)

Pocahontas image: The National Portrait Gallery

Drive-in-Bank image: The Sphere, 1961

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Music:

Ecossaise in E-flat by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/?keywords=ecossaise&Search=Search

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Barroom Ballet (Kevin MacLeod)
The following music was used for this media project:
Music: Barroom Ballet by Kevin MacLeod
Free download: https://filmmusic.io/song/3418-barroom-ballet
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Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Divertissement by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Breaktime – Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Pepper’s Funk by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Army Blue (The U.S Army Band)

The Thought of You (TrackTribe)
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