Coronation: From price to history, all you need to know about the royal coaches used by King Charles

The coronation ceremony of King Charles III took place on Saturday, May 6, 2023. King Charles and Camilla, Queen Consort began and ended their journey by travelling in two different royal coaches.

They made their way to the Westminster Abbey for the coronation in the Diamond Jubilee State Coach and travelled back to the Buckingham Palace after the coronation in the Gold State Coach.

Here are details about the Diamond Jubilee State Coach and Gold State Coach

Diamond Jubilee State Coach was built to celebrate 60 years of Queen Elizabeth II's reign. This coach is over 5m long, weighs over 3 tonnes and needs 6 horses to pull it.

As per La Escudería, when it was first designed, the cost was estimated to be $185,000 but as time went by, the cost of this coach exceeded by $4 million mark.

On the other hand, the Gold State Coach is 260 years old it has been used at every coronation since that of William IV. It was last used by Queen Elizabeth II to travel on her Coronation Day in 1953.

This coach is 7 metres long, 3.6 metres tall, weighs 4 tonnes and needs 8 horses to draw it.

As per Brittanica notes, the production cost of this coach was 7,562 pounds sterling, which today can be around $2-2.5 million.

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