Buckingham Palace has confirmed that the Prince and Princess of Wales’s eldest child, Prince George, will have a major role at King Charles’s coronation on 6 May.
The future king, nine, will serve as one of his grandfather’s Pages of Honour at the ceremony, who will hold the robes of some of the leading individuals taking part in the procession. And the news has sparked a big reaction from royal fans on social media.
The Palace shared a new portrait of the King and Queen Camilla, taken by Hugo Burnand taken in the blue drawing room, as well as details about the eight Pages of Honour.
“Love this new picture and that Prince George will have a big role on this very important day! I can’t wait,” one Instagram follower.
“Lovely that George gets to take part in the procession,” another agreed.
A third said: “Such a beautiful portrait, and wonderful news about the Pages of Honour.”
The King’s pages are his grandson George, Nicholas Barclay, 13, grandson of Sarah Troughton one of the Queen’s Companions, Lord Oliver Cholmondeley, 13, son of the Marquess of Cholmondeley also known as film-maker David Rocksavage and a friend of the Prince of Wales, and Ralph Tollemache, 12.
The Queen’s Pages of Honour will be her three grandsons, twin boys Gus and Louis, aged 13, by her daughter Laura Lopes, and 13-year-old Frederick, by son Tom Parker Bowles, and her great-nephew, Arthur Elliot, 10.
Page of Honour is a role usually granted to teenage sons of the nobility and they take part in major ceremonies involving the monarch, including coronations and the State Opening of Parliament.
Traditionally they wear a scarlet frock coat with gold trimmings over a white satin waistcoat, breeches and hose, white gloves, black buckled shoes and a lace cravat and ruffles.
Prince George has served as a pageboy at the royal weddings of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Princess Eugenie to Jack Brooksbank, but this will be his most significant public role to date.
