Buckingham Palace just announced the official coronation details for the new king, and things are already moving faster than anticipated. On Tuesday, the Palace confirmed that King Charles III’s coronation will take place on Saturday, May 6, 2023, at Westminster Abbey in London. While the location is not surprising given that British royals have been crowned there for hundreds of years, the date of the ceremony is earlier than many speculated. After the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8, some believed that King Charles would hold his coronation on June 2 — nodding to the date of his mother’s coronation back in 1953. However, now that the country has ended its formal period of mourning, the crowning ceremony for its next monarch is top of mind.

The Palace added that the coronation ceremony will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, as is tradition, and that Queen Consort Camilla will also be crowned alongside her husband. “The Coronation will reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future, while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry,” the Palace said. This could be alluding to rumors that King Charles is planning a simpler service than that of his mother’s, which included 8,000 guests and lasted three hours, per People. “Charles became King Charles the moment his mother died, but the coronation is to do with the job and being the monarch in the eyes of all the people,” royal historian Robert Lacey told People, adding that, while tradition will be honored, we can likely expect to see a more modern ceremony with “interfaith” qualities.

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