Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and numerous other world leaders were present at the coronation service of King Charles III and his wife, Queen Camilla on Saturday.
It is being witnessed by hundreds of high-profile guests inside the abbey, as well as tens of thousands of well-wishers who have gathered in central London despite the rain.
The doors to the abbey opened just before 8 a.m. local time, with the first guests taking their seats a full three hours before the ceremony began.
Celebrities including singer Lionel Richie, and Nick Cave; actresses Emma Thompson, Joanna Lumley and Judi Dench, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, were in attendance.
Other dignitaries are UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, broadcaster Stephen Fry; all Sunak’s living predecessors as prime minister were there: Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, Theresa May, David Cameron, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and John Major. Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, UK opposition leader Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt were also in attendance.
First Lady of the United States Jill Biden and the US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry were there, as was the Chinese Vice President Han Zheng.
See photos of their arrival below:
