It can be seen in the video that the horse enters the crowd
A video has surfaced on the internet that shows a horse in the coronation procession running backwards into the crowd as it appears to be scared. The incident took place minutes after King Charles III walked back to Buckingham Palace from Westminster Abbey.
The horse nearly collided with a mounted member of the king’s royal household right behind the gold state coach carrying Charles and Queen Camilla, new york post informed of.
Watch the video here:
During today’s coronation of British King Charles III, an excited horse that was part of the royal procession galloped through the streets of London into spectators watching the event. pic.twitter.com/29RXPOwK2e
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The footage showed horrified onlookers getting out of the way of the scared animal as the metal barrier collapsed.
Troops brought a stretcher to the scene in anticipation of injuries – but it does not appear anyone was badly injured to require one, reports Wales Online.
according to a Independent Reportedly, the public was standing behind it and managed to move out of the way, and it is believed that no one was injured in the incident.
Meanwhile, Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 Commonwealth realms on Saturday in Britain’s first coronation in 70 years, during a ceremony steeped in a millennium of ritual and pageantry.
Charles, 74, became the oldest monarch ever to be crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey after a lifetime as heir to his late mother Queen Elizabeth II.