Charles thanked the well-wishers for coming, shaking hands as he slowly moved along the line
Theresa Iredale, wearing a plastic crown, said she trembled when the king approached her after she screamed his name.
The royals made the stop after a luncheon that followed the final rehearsal for Charles’ Saturday morning coronation service at Westminster Abbey. On Thursday, William and Kate, the Prince and Princess of Wales, took a subway train and visited a pub in Soho as part of the lead-up to the coronation. Many of those assembled had already camped out or planned to spend the night hoping for a prime perch for the procession Saturday and maybe a view of the newly crowned monarch and Queen Camilla, his wife, waving from the balcony of the palace after returning from the ceremony.
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