MANILA — Malacañang announced Monday night that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and First Lady Liza Marcos will be attending the coronation of King Charles III in London on May 6.
The Palace said Marcos and his wife accepted the invitation to the coronation — the first since 1953 — at Westminster Abbey.
“Furthermore, the President and the First Lady have accepted the invitation of the Master of the Household, upon command of His Majesty, to a Reception to be given at Buckingham Palace in advance of the Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort,” the Palace also said.
This will be Marcos’ 11th trip since taking office as president on June 30, 2022. He has visited Singapore twice and made trips to Indonesia, the United States, Cambodia, Thailand, Belgium, China, Switzerland and Japan.
ABS-CBN News was first to report that Marcos has accepted the invitation to attend the coronation of Charles, quoting Ambassador to the United Kingdom Teodoro Locsin Jr.
“When I saw him in the wake of (former trade chief) Bobby Ongpin, he said: ‘Teddy Boy, I’m coming in but we have to leave at once because we have to catch the (Association of Southeast Asian Nations).’ He is going to be here,” Locsin was quoted as saying.
Locsin was quoted further as saying that Charles III and Marcos know each other because they used to play polo together.
The ASEAN Summit will take place in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara in Indonesia from May 9 to 11.
Charles III will be crowned alongside Camilla, the Queen Consort, in a ceremony to be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and witnessed by several world leaders and other prominent figures.
In a recent statement, Buckingham Palace said the coronation would “reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry.”
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