Bafta and multiple-award-winning artist Alison Jackson will be marking Charles III’s coronation by hosting her mischievous The Crown exhibition of photographs at Grove Gallery. The show will explore private moments of the royal family, ‘the firm’ – particularly the jingoistic hoopla surrounding May’s coronation weekend – through Jackson’s trademark tongue-in-cheek photography, which has dismantled the cult of celebrity for over two decades. 

Jackson will launch The Crown exhibition with her very own coronation procession on 27 April.  Taking the same route being taken by the royal couple nine days later, Jackson will take King Charles III and Camilla, the Queen Consort (well, their lookalikes) on a journey around the streets of central London. The parade will start in Knightsbridge (where King Charles attended prep school), with the convoy then passing Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Trafalgar Square before winding up at Grove Gallery in Fitzrovia, home to The Crown exhibition until 27 May. It’s been rumoured that Prince Harry and Meghan will join Charles and Camilla on the route. 

The Crown offers a whimsical view of the coronation, the behind-the-scenes private moments we have all imagined but never seen before.  Jackson is fascinated by the royals because they are so mysterious and intriguing as they are shrouded in tradition and history. Jackson’s photographs raising questions our perception of the royals.