Australian singer Nick Cave has taken his seat inside Westminster Abbey where he will be a witness to the coronation of King Charles III.
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Cave, who is attending as part of the Australian delegation, earlier this week responded to some of his fans who were shocked at his attending the event, saying he was looking forward to it.
"I am not a monarchist, nor am I a royalist, nor am I an ardent republican for that matter," he wrote on his website The Red Hand Files.
"What I am also not is so spectacularly incurious about the world and the way it works, so ideologically captured, so damn grouchy, as to refuse an invitation to what will more than likely be the most important historical event in the UK of our age.
"Not just the most important, but the strangest, the weirdest."
Cave said he had been impressed by the Queen when he met her at a royal event years ago, saying she was glowing and "almost extraterrestrial and was the most charismatic woman I have ever met".
"I hold an inexplicable emotional attachment to the Royals - the strangeness of them, the deeply eccentric nature of the whole affair that so perfectly reflects the unique weirdness of Britain itself," said Cave, who lives in a seaside town in East Sussex, UK.
"I'm just drawn to that kind of thing - the bizarre, the uncanny, the stupefyingly spectacular, the awe-inspiring."
Australian Associated Press
