Prince Edward and his wife Sophie visit Surrey street party

The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh visited a thoroughfare luncheon successful Surrey successful solemnisation of the Coronation.

King Charles III was crowned alongside Queen Camilla connected Saturday, marking the archetypal coronation successful 70 years.

More than 1,000 thoroughfare parties and lunches are being held crossed Kent, Sussex and Surrey connected Sunday.

Prince Edward and his woman Sophie attended a Coronation Big Lunch successful Cranleigh, wherever the mates tasted a coronation chickenhearted pie.

Hundreds of residents attended the event, on with representatives from the Royal British Legion, the Scouts and the Guides.

Meanwhile, radical surviving successful the aptly-named Fry Crescent successful Burgess Hill came unneurotic to big a 'fully aerial fried' thoroughfare party.

Resident Carol Scott said: "We're known for our thoroughfare parties present connected Fry Crescent, but we usually barbeque oregon cook the nutrient we serve, truthful creating a paper made up wholly of nutrient rustled up successful our caller Tefal aerial fryers has been a situation which we've each relished."

Avid bakers person besides enactment their skills to the trial creating bespoke cakes to observe the Coronation.

Catherine Davies, from Crowborough, East Sussex, owns a barroom concern and works arsenic a teaching adjunct successful Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

She created a triple-layered coronation vanilla barroom with citrus and elderflower buttercream, which was a prize successful a raffle.

She said the bespoke creation, which dons the authoritative insignia, took astir 2 hours to make.

"I thought the insignia connected the apical was elegant and looked bully successful gold, matching the drip down the sides," she said.

At a Big Coronation Lunch successful Canterbury, a pistillate successful a national jack formal curtsied erstwhile she met Archbishop Justin Welby.

"I did this truly embarrassing thing," Michelle Downer said. "I curtsied to him."

Regarding the Coronation, she added: "I didn't determination from the TV."

Big screens were acceptable up successful towns and cities crossed the portion to amusement the ceremonial - including successful Brighton, Rochester, Canterbury and Ashford.

More than 200 spectators gathered to ticker the Coronation connected a large surface successful Jubilee Square successful Brighton, portion astatine Canterbury Cathedral, determination was a prom, a unrecorded screening and a celebratory doorbell peal.

At Rochester Castle, Brig Peter Gilbert, 64, stood retired from the assemblage successful his subject dress.

The Deputy Lieutenant for Medway, who joined the Territorial Army astatine 17, said: "I spent fundamentally my full beingness serving Queen Elizabeth II, truthful I consciousness precise grateful, close astatine the extremity of my vocation to person the accidental to service the King.

"Before I was successful the equipped services, I was a cathedral chorister, truthful that infinitesimal erstwhile they came into the Abbey to the dependable of (Sir Hubert) Parry's I Was Glad was perfectly extraordinary."

And adjacent those who were said they were not immense fans of the Royal Family had fun.

Joe Monahan, who travelled from Hull to sojourn his household successful Kent, said: "I'm not a monolithic royalist, but I've enjoyed the atmosphere."

Mr Monahan, who was wrapped successful a national jack, added: "I rather similar the pompousness of it each - the anserine costumes, I similar it.

"The gospel choir was great, I enjoyed watching them."

Meanwhile, one-year-old Percival besides stood to attraction for the caller monarch successful Stockbury, Kent.