Coronation: Royals set to take part in Big Help Out events

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The Prince of Wales (L), the Queen and the King (R) question    flags astatine  the performance  connected  SundayImage source, Reuters

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The Prince of Wales (L), the Queen and the King (R) question flags astatine the performance connected Sunday

By Rachel Russell

BBC News

The weekend-long Coronation celebrations gully to a adjacent connected Monday with members of the nationalist taking portion successful assemblage events crossed the UK.

The Big Help Out involves radical taking connected volunteering roles connected the other slope holiday.

The King and Queen are not expected to be immoderate events - but different royals volition driblet successful connected immoderate of the projects.

The community-focused events travel Sunday's Coronation performance which featured Take That and Katy Perry.

Hollywood histrion Tom Cruise, Hugh Bonneville featured successful the performance astatine Windsor Castle watched by the King, Queen and elder royals, on with singers Olly Murs and Paloma Faith.

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Katy Perry performed astatine the King's Coronation concert

The Royal Family were seen dancing on to Lionel Richie during the 95-minute lawsuit arsenic colourful images to travel each of the acts were projected onto the historical castle.

The Prince of Wales gave a poignant code arsenic helium told the King: "Pa, we are each truthful arrogant of you", adding the precocious Queen would beryllium a "very arrogant mother".

Prince William and the Princess of Wales are expected to articulation successful with unpaid events connected Monday.

For the Big Help Out, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh volition instrumentality portion successful a puppy people astatine the Guide Dogs grooming centre successful Reading, portion Princess Anne and her hubby Sir Tim Laurence volition be a civic work recognising section volunteers astatine Gloucester Cathedral.

Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester volition conscionable young volunteers astatine a Coronation enactment astatine St Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church successful Kensington, westbound London.

An app and website person been acceptable up to let radical to hunt for volunteering opportunities, which volition scope from helping the aged to moving with biology charities and supporting carnal welfare.

A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said the King was "wholly supportive of the Big Help Out initiatives taking place".

Queen Camilla is patron of the Royal Voluntary Service foundation and has besides been patron of the Big Lunch inaugural since 2013.

The royals person been retired successful unit implicit the play arsenic they joined assorted Coronation events astir the country.

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Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie posed for a selfie with a well-wisher portion attending a thoroughfare enactment connected Sunday

Before the performance connected Sunday, Edward and Sophie attended a Coronation Big Lunch successful Cranleigh, Surrey, portion the Princess Royal and Sir Tim Laurence went to a assemblage thoroughfare enactment successful Swindon.

The Duke of York's daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie besides attended a large luncheon successful Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire.

The thoroughfare parties and lunches followed Saturday's coronation of the King and Queen astatine Westminster Abbey.

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