George, Charlotte and Louis will play star role in King Charles coronation
All three of Prince William and Kate's children will play starring roles in King Charles' coronation, leaked plans show.
Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis will join the monarch and the Queen Consort Camilla as they leave Westminster Abbey at the end of the ceremony on May 6.
The procession back to Buckingham Palace is reportedly set to be a third of the size of that at Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953.
Second-in-line to the throne, George, nine, has long been expected to attend the coronation, though it is not known whether he will have a role to play.
However, it has not been known until now whether Charlotte, seven, would be there, nor Louis, who turns five next month.
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King Charles III will be coronated in a ceremony on May 6 (Getty Images)Prince Charles was four in 1953 when Elizabeth was crowned, and attended only part of the three-hour-long service.
He sat between the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret and did not take part in any of the processions.
George and Charlotte became the youngest members of the royal family ever to join a funeral procession when they took part in the late Queen's funeral last year - though Louis was considered too young.
All three siblings are expected to be on public display for the Coronation, the Times reports, according to leaked coronation rehearsal plans.
While the royal youngsters' presence has not been confirmed by Kensington Palace, documents show that after processing out of the abbey, they were expected to join their parents in a carriage behind a Gold State Coach transporting the King and Queen.
Camilla Queen Consort and King Charles III followed by Princess Charlotte, Catherine Princess of Wales, Prince Louis, Prince George and Prince William (Tim Rooke/REX/Shutterstock)Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet are not believed to have been invited to the coronation.
According to the rehearsal plans, as expected, neither the Duke and Duchess of Sussex nor the Duke of York will take part in the procession, as they are not working members of the royal family.
Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie will not be in the procession either.
Buckingham Palace has said the carriage procession after the Coronation will be significantly smaller, and shorter, than the procession after Queen Elizabeth's coronation.
However, the palace has insisted it would be "amazing in both scale and splendour".
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While the late Queen's eldest son officially became Monarch the moment she passed away at 3.10pm on September 8 last year, the Coronation will celebrate the beginning of his reign. His wife Queen Camilla will also be coronated.
The new King and Queen will travel in the Gold State Coach, seen here at Elizabeth's coronation in 1953 (Universal Images Group via Getty Images)The event at Westminster Abbey will be filled with royal tradition, with both Charles and Camilla wearing priceless crowns covered in jewels worth millions of pounds.
Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation was the first to be televised. BBC broadcaster Richard Dimbleby provided commentary over a period of seven hours.
Charles's shorter event is expected to make the service more acceptable for TV audiences.
King Charles' Coronation is rumoured to be costing somewhere in the region of £100million, although this is unconfirmed.
As it's a state event, the UK government will be paying for it, which essentially means it's being paid for by the taxpayer.
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