King Charles's coronation concert offers 10,000 free tickets in ballot

A ballot is to connection 10,000 escaped tickets for a star-studded performance astatine Windsor Castle to people the King's coronation.

The televised amusement volition beryllium connected 7 May, the time aft King Charles is crowned astatine Westminster Abbey.

The BBC has promised the line-up volition diagnostic "musical icons and modern stars".

There volition beryllium 5,000 pairs of tickets in the ballot, which volition unfastened astatine 07:00 connected Friday and adjacent connected 28 February.

They would beryllium allocated based connected the geographical dispersed of the UK population, the BBC said.

The castle's eastbound tract would spot "a world-class orchestra play interpretations of philharmonic favourites fronted by fantastic entertainers, alongside performers from the satellite of creation and the arts", the BBC said.

It "will besides diagnostic a enactment of spoken-word sequences delivered by stars of signifier and screen", a connection added.

More tickets volition beryllium made disposable to a scope of charities and the lawsuit volition beryllium broadcast connected BBC TV, vigor and online.

BBC main contented serviceman Charlotte Moore said: "The coronation performance connected the BBC volition bring the federation unneurotic to people this momentous juncture and we are thrilled to beryllium capable to connection the nationalist the accidental to beryllium portion of the lawsuit astatine Windsor Castle done a nationalist ballot, arsenic good arsenic providing audiences with exclusive sum crossed TV and radio."