In London, the hours rush so that not a single detail remains to be polished. Tomorrow, at 11:20, Spanish time, Charles III and Camila will leave Buckingham Palace heading to Westminster Abbey, where most of the coronation ceremony will take place.

As you can see in the video that accompanies this news, the journey to get there will cross The Mall, the famous street that connects Buckingham with Trafalgar Square. In that area, many people have been camping for days so as not to miss the long-awaited procession.

Carlos and Camila will arrive at Westminster in the modern Diamond Jubilee floateven equipped with air conditioning, built in 2012 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the reign of Elizabeth II.

The procession will be, this time, shorter and more sober than that of the predecessors of Carlos III. The king will enter the abbey at 12:00 through the great west door and will file through the nave until he reaches the central space. Hours before, we will have seen the arrivals of political and religious leaders from around the world invited to the event. The monarch will be, first, presented to the people together with the St. Edward’s chair, 700 years old and newly restored for the occasion.

After an oath, the most sacred moment of the act will take place: the holy anointing. And, as in previous coronations, this moment will not be seen. A cloak has been designed with which they will surround Carlos III: “They will cover him completely so that absolutely nothing of the anointing is seen. It is a moment between the king and God,” explains Ana Polo, a political scientist and author of a biography on the Queen isabel II. The Archbishop of Canterbury will anoint Carlos’s forehead, chest and hands with olive oil extracted from the mount of olivesin Jerusalem.

After that, there will be imposition of the crown and with it will come salutes across the UK and the tolling of the abbey bells.

Carlos III, already crowned, will ascend to the throne and, then, Prince William, his heir, will kneel before him. It will be after that moment when they will impose the crown on Camila, using the same one as that of Queen María de Teck, great-grandmother of Carlos III. The ceremony at the abbey will end at 2:00 p.m., when Carlos III and Camila will leave, also in procession, towards Buckingham. There, about an hour later, we will see the famous greeting from the balcony of the palace. A moment that will finally come for Carlos III, 70 years after seeing the coronation of his mother, through binoculars, through a palace window.