Although many details are yet to be announced, the guest list for the Coronation of King Charles III already reads like a who's who of international royalty, world leaders, charity champions and certain carefully selected aristocrats.
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But taking one VIP place will be what might seem a more unexpected guest: Andrew Parker Bowles, Queen Camilla's former husband.
Camilla, 75, and Andrew, 83, divorced in 1995 after 22 years of marriage, but remain close friends – despite a complicated history which included infidelity on both parties.
This will be Parker Bowles's second Coronation at Westminster Abbey as, aged 13, he was one of the pages when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953. Camilla was famously Charles's mistress during her marriage to Andrew, while the latter is described by friends as having been 'very naughty with women' throughout.
They have two children: food writer Tom, 48 and Laura Lopes, 45, an artist.
Tom's son Freddy, 13, and Laura's twin sons Gus and Louis, also 13, will be Camilla's pages of honor at her coronation, carrying the train of her robes.
The author Tina Brown has claimed it was Andrew, rather than Charles, who was the love of Camilla's life. Whatever the truth, the man Brown describes as 'a walking pink gin' is said to remain one of her chief confidantes.
‘They are joined at the hip,’ according to a friend. 'He arranges so much for her. They have lunch together all the time. He's right in there. He was always, and still is, Camilla's co-conspirator.'
Known as 'The Brigadier' in reference to his former career as an army officer who served with the Blues and Royals and was awarded a Queen's Commendation for Bravery in Zimbabwe, Andrew has moved in royal circles for decades.
As a 13-year-old, he served as a page to Lord Simonds, then the Lord High Chancellor, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
‘My mother was a good friend of the Duke of Norfolk,’ he recalled. ‘The Lord Chancellor had no children so Bernard Norfolk suggested me to Lord Simonds. I have to say that he was the nicest man alive and gave me a very nice set of cufflinks.