King Charles III's Coronation watched by more than 18 million viewers

The King's Coronation was watched by an mean of 18 cardinal viewers successful the UK, overnight figures person shown.

The ceremony, which saw the King and Queen Camilla crowned, was broadcast simultaneously crossed a scope of channels betwixt 11:00 and 13:00 BST.

Viewing peaked astatine 20.4 cardinal arsenic the King was crowned conscionable aft midday, assemblage measurement radical Barb said.

The figures are smaller than erstwhile an mean of 26.5 cardinal viewers tuned successful for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral.

An mean of 18.8 cardinal radical tuned into ticker the Coronation crossed 11 channels and services, including BBC One, Two, ITV and Sky News.

On BBC One, a highest of 13.4 cardinal viewers tuned successful and the transmission had an mean assemblage of 11.9 million.