Next week’s coronation of King Charles will have some Caribbean flavour as defence force personnel and police officers from the region will participate in the grand affair.
Anguilla and Montserrat have already selected their representatives that will be heading to London for the coronation on 6 May.
Approximately 4,000 military marching troops from the UK and Britain Overseas territories are expected to participate in the procession from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace.
Inspector Helmert Mason will represent the Royal Anguilla Police Force as part of the Coronation Procession.
Inspector Helmert Mason.
Ten members of the Royal Montserrat Defence Force (RMDF) will represent the island.
The team, which includes lieutenant colonel Alvin Ryan, Captain Colin Fergus, Private Princess Hixon and Sergeant Deverson Semper, arrived in the UK today.
The troops would be housed at Brunswick Lines, Pirbright training camp along with their colleagues from the UK and overseas territories.
Members of the Montserrat Defence Force with the Governor prior to their departure for London.
Lt. Col Ryan would have additional duties as he would be working with the Senior Officer’s Cohort (SOC). Upon the completion of the Coronation Procession the SOC will parade in Buckingham Palace Garden to salute and give three cheers to the King and Queen Consort.
The defence force noted that this is not the first time that they are present at the Coronation of a British Monarch. In 1952 Captain Cyril Taylor, the Commanding Officer of the then Montserrat Defence Force, attended the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
