The flypast of aircraft celebrating the Coronation of King Charles will be ten times smaller than the one which flew over Buckingham Palace for his late mother.

In 1953 more than 600 aircraft flew across London and over the palace following the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey.

But her son’s flypast on May 6 will be composed of just 68 aircraft, in keeping with the King’s wish for a smaller, slimmed down Coronation.

It has already emerged that the King's Coronation procession will be a fraction of the length of the late Queen’s.

The ceremonial pageantry will also include a much smaller number of Armed Forces personnel who took part in the 1953 procession after repeated defence cuts reduced those available.

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