Norfolk links of King's Coronation pages of honour

Nicholas Barclay and Lord Oliver Cholmondeley, both 13, will join nine-year-old future King, Prince George, and 12-year-old Ralph Tollemache at the monarch's side for the procession into Westminster Abbey.

Dressed in scarlet frock coats, they will be charged with holding the robes of some of the leading participants in the ceremony on May 6.

Nicholas is the son of Sarah Troughton, Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire, who is the daughter of Sir Timothy Colman, former Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, from Colman's Mustard family, who passed away in September 2021 after playing a prominent role in Norfolk life.

Lord Oliver is the son of David Cholmondeley, the Marquess of Cholmondeley, owner of Houghton Hall near Fakenham, who has been named the King's lord in waiting after previously serving as the late Queen Elizabeth as her Lord Chamberlain.  

Prince George is the eldest son of heir to the throne Prince William, while Ralph is the son of Edward Tollemache, a banker and aristocrat.

The Queen Consort’s pages of honour will be her grandsons, Gus and Louis Lopes, Freddy Parker Bowles and her great-nephew Arthur Elliot.

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An invitation to the Coronation designed by artist Andrew Jamieson (Image: Andrew Jamieson)

A new photograph of the King and Queen Consort has been released by Buckingham Palace ahead of next month's coronation.

Taken by Hugo Burnand, it shows the couple in the blue drawing room at Buckingham Palace.

The palace has also released a copy of the official invitation to the coronation, which will be sent to more than 2,000 guests who will form the congregation in Westminster Abbey.  

Printed on recycled card, it has been designed by heraldic artist Andrew Jamieson around a motif of the Green Man, an ancient figure from British folklore, symbolic of spring and rebirth, to celebrate the new reign.