(UPDATE) LONDON: Charles 3rd on Saturday finally met his date with destiny after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth 2nd, as he was officially crowned king in the first coronation in Britain since 1953.

At 12:02 p.m. exactly (1102 GMT), the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby placed the solid gold St Edward's Crown on Charles's head as a sacred and ancient symbol of the monarch's authority.

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