{"id":528083,"date":"2025-10-26T00:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528083\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T00:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T00:58:20","slug":"chocolatier-celebrates-coronation-with-life-sized-bust-of-king-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/528083\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolatier celebrates coronation with life-sized bust of King Charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Charles-Use-This-One.jpg\" alt=\"Master chocolatier makes King Charles bust out of chocolate\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Mars Wrigley and a master chocolatier in the UK are celebrating the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/people\/king-charles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coronation of King Charles III<\/a> with something sweet: a King Charles bust made entirely out of chocolate.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Chocolatier Jennifer Lindsey-Clark said the creation, which stands at nearly 2 feet tall and weighs more than 50 pounds, took her and her team more than 130 hours to make. Lindsey-Clark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/food-drink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">melted 2,875 Celebrations chocolates<\/a> to shape the royal mold.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;The team studied hours of footage of the King to capture his true likeness and the resemblance is uncanny,&#8221; Emily Owen, Celebrations senior brand manager, said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/katy-perry-hopes-to-bring-light-and-love-to-king-charles-coronation-concert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Katy Perry hopes to bring &#8216;light and love&#8217; to King Charles\u2019 coronation concert<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The bust features the uniform King Charles is expected to wear to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/king-charles-coronation-plans-shorter-route-ceremony-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his coronation on May 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/King-Charles-and-Chocolate-King-Charles.jpg\" alt=\"378a50ba-\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">King Charles III in uniform and a chocolate bust of King Charles III (Getty Images and Mars Wrigley UK via Storyful) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Charles, who became king when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/people\/queen-elizabeth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his mother died in September<\/a>, will be formally crowned alongside Camilla, the queen consort, in the 1,000-year-old Westminster Abbey after traveling in a gilded horse-drawn coach from Buckingham Palace.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/king-charles-coronation-plans-shorter-route-ceremony-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>King Charles III&#8217;s coronation: 3 crowns, 2 carriages and a shorter route<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Royalty and dignitaries from around the world have been invited to the coronation, alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/british-royal-family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">senior British royals including heir to the throne Prince William<\/a> and his family. Charles\u2019 younger son, Prince Harry, who quit royal duties in 2020, will travel from California to attend \u2014 but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/news\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-coronation-invitation-king-charles-iii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his wife, Meghan, and their two young children<\/a> are staying home.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The chocolate King Charles bust will go on display at Mars Wrigley\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livenowfox.com\/tag\/world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UK headquarters in Slough<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/people\/king-charles\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Charles III<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox9.com\/tag\/british-royal-family\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Royal Family<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mars Wrigley and a master chocolatier in the UK are celebrating the upcoming coronation of King Charles III&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7708],"tags":[7709,7730,7731,1760,12,457,7710,519],"class_list":{"0":"post-528083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-royals","8":"tag-british-royal-family","9":"tag-charles","10":"tag-charles-iii","11":"tag-king-charles","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-people","14":"tag-royal-families","15":"tag-royal-family"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115437758330706868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}