Charles kicked BBC cameraman from Coronation rehearsals for ‘filming on the sly’

King Charles reportedly had a BBC cameraman kicked out of the Coronation after the monarch spotted him secretly trying to film.

Charles is said to have spied the veteran BBC worker during one of the rehearsals.

According to The Sun, top-level sources said Charles told officials: "He’s not filming my Coronation."

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Sources added that the worker had left his assigned post and was attempting to watch the run-through of the sacred anointing.

He was hanging around the production screens with his mobile phone in hand before security stepped in and escorted him from Westminster Abbey.

He was reportedly immediately suspended and banned from working for the BBC during the King's Coronation.

The Sun reported that the on-site BBC boss ripped up the bloke's filming accreditation on the steps of Westminster Abbey.

A source said: "This was a humiliation for the BBC and left everyone involved in deep shock.

"Charles spotted the cameraman trying to film him during the run-through for the most sensitive part of the ceremony.

"It is highly irregular for any journalist to leave their set position in such circumstances.

"And it’s deeply concerning to think he would be trying to film precious moments deliberately hidden from public view."

The anointing, the central religious act of a Coronation, was always going to be hidden from view.

According to the Royal Collection Trust: "Anointing was one of the medieval holy sacraments and it emphasised the spiritual status of the sovereign. Until the seventeenth century the sovereign was considered to be appointed directly by God and this was confirmed by the ceremony of anointing.

"Although the monarch is no longer considered divine in the same way, the ceremony of Coronation also confirms the monarch as the Supreme Governor of the Church of England."

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