The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort will take place 2023 at Westminster Abbey on 6 May 2023.
The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, Professor Tim Jones, offered his congratulations on behalf of the University to King Charles III.
Professor Jones said: “On behalf of our university community I would like to send our warmest congratulations and best wishes to His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty The Queen Consort on the occasion of their Coronation. We look forward to continuing working together through his role as joint patron of the University’s Institute of Irish Studies and wish them both every success in their reign.”
The Coronation
The coronation ceremony is an occasion for pageantry and celebration, but it is also a solemn religious ceremony and has remained essentially the same over a thousand yearsCoronation is centred on a symbolic religious ceremony that dates back over 1,000 years.
The Coronation is one of a number of national events taking place over the weekend of 6-8 May, alongside Coronation Big Lunches, a Concert at Windsor Castle and ‘The Big Help Out’ community activity on Bank Holiday Monday.
Staff and students can find out more about local events by visiting the Coronation webpages.
Liverpool
His Majesty The King has been a regular visit to the city and most recently visited the Liverpool Arena where he and Her Majesty The Queen Consort unveiled the Eurovision stage to the public for the very first time.
Joint patronage of the Institute of Irish Studies
In 2019, we welcomed His Majesty King Charles III then HRH The Prince of Wales and the President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins to the University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery & Museum to sign a joint patronage agreement for the Institute of Irish Studies.
The establishment of the official Joint Patronage Lectureship to the Institute of Irish Studies was announced at the signing ceremony.
During the visit, the then Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall met with Institute of Irish Studies staff, students and academics with Professor Peter Shirlow, Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, delivering a speech to mark the occasion and Professor Frank Shovlin reading a letter from John McGahern to Seamus Heaney.
In 2020, the pandemic meant that our graduation ceremonies had to be held online. However, to celebrate the occasion, the then HRH Prince of Wales sent a special message to honour the incredible achievements of the Class of 2020 as part of the online celebrations to mark their graduation.
