Police arrested the leader of the Republican protests hours before the ceremony began. The Coronation Act has gathered thousands of people in the streets of London in the rain.
The duration and numbers of participants have been shorter than those of his mother, Elizabeth II, in 1953. Operation Golden Orb, the device prepared by the Government, the royal house, the BBC and the main British institutions, has been an effort to demonstrate to the rest of the world that the monarchy is an integral part of its very essence.