Taken from an interview after the event:
King Charles was crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster Abbey on May 6th 2023.
I was selected as a team of three to set up a system of cameras that would ensure the moment that the King was crowned was covered from every angle, but without a single photographer or cable visible.
This meant that, for 14 days straight before the event, my colleague Aaron Crown and I, and our former picture editor Martin Keene, spent 12+ hour days inside Westminster Abbey setting up eight remote cameras dotted in various places around the Coronation Chair.
For two weeks I crawled through decades-old dust beneath the Abbey floorboards, dangled on a harness from the High Altar and battled through dense floral arrangements, surviving on a diet of Pret sandwiches and very little sleep, all whilst being surrounded by priceless religious artefacts, in order to lay over one mile of cabling around the Abbey that would enable us to remotely operate our cameras from behind a wall, out of sight of the congregation.
The resulting images were shared around the world, and I was very happy to achieve the front page of Time Magazine.
King Charles III is crowned with St Edward's Crown by The Archbishop of Canterbury the Most Reverend Justin Welby during his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London. Picture date: Saturday May 6, 2023.
King Charles III is crowned with St Edward's Crown during his coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey, London. Picture date: Saturday May 6, 2023.
Time Magazine: May 22-29 2023
Monday September 19, 2022: The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II, followed by (left to right, from front) King Charles III, the Queen Consort, the Princess Royal, Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, the Duke of York, the Earl of Wessex and the Countess of Wessex, is carried by the Bearer Party into the Committal Service for Queen Elizabeth II held at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Berkshire.