King says Elizabeth II wore her crown at bath time when he was a child

King Charles III has described however Elizabeth II wore her crown during his puerility bath clip arsenic signifier for her coronation.

"My mama utilized to travel up astatine bath clip wearing the crown to practise," helium said successful remarks which volition beryllium broadcast successful a caller documentary.

The King besides spoke of feeling "slightly anxious" astir wearing the dense St Edward's Crown astatine his ain coronation.

The remarks diagnostic successful a documentary astir a radical of Canadian women who attended the precocious queen's coronation.

"I retrieve it each truthful good then, due to the fact that I retrieve my sister and I had bath clip successful the evening," King Charles told the women, recalling the run-up to the 1953 event.

"You person to get utilized to however dense [the crown] is.

"I've ne'er forgotten, I tin inactive retrieve it vividly."

He added: "It is precise important to deterioration it for a definite magnitude of time, due to the fact that you get utilized to it then.

"But the large 1 that you're crowned with, the St Edward's Crown, it weighs 5 pounds.

"It is overmuch heavier and taller, truthful there's ever that feeling of feeling somewhat anxious, successful lawsuit it wobbles.

"You person to transportation it, you person to look consecutive ahead."

The 17th Century aureate St Edward's Crown is worn by the monarch astatine the infinitesimal of their coronation and weighs 4.9lb (2.23kg).

But some King Charles III and Elizabeth II wore the Imperial Sate Crown – which weights conscionable much than a kilogram – arsenic they near Westminster Abbey.

The caller documentary, Coronation Girls, tells the communicative of 50 women from crossed Canada who were sponsored by a Canadian businessman to be Queen Elizabeth II's coronation.

It followed 12 of the women, whose mean property is 89, arsenic they retraced their steps and returned to London successful December past year, wherever they were amazed by King Charles during a sojourn to Buckingham Palace.

It is owed to aerial connected Boxing Day connected WNED PBS successful Canada.