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King Charles has made a touching tribute to his wife by featuring a flower from the buttonhole he wore to their wedding as part of the stunning floral displays at Westminster Abbey for his Coronation.

The arrangements will feature hellebores – a particular favourite of the King – as well as honeysuckle, tulips, blossom, jasmine, ranunculus and aquilegia – an ancient symbol of the Holy Spirit.

They will also include foliage of rosemary, birch, bay and hazel and wild broom grown on the Isle of Skye.

The plants have all been chosen because they are in season and will be donated to Floral Angels, which repurposes arrangements from events into bouquets to share with care homes, hospices and shelters. Camilla is the charity's patron.

Florist Shane Connolly, who is in charge of the arrangements, said that at the late Queen's 1953 coronation there were no flowers in the Abbey, only on the processional route.