In 2012, the clock tower was renamed Elizabeth Tower in honour of Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, who is King Charles III's mother.

“The gentle modesty of these natural forms combine to define an emblem that acknowledges both the joyful and profound importance of this occasion,” Ive said. King Charles III Coronation: Metropolitan Police To Use Live Facial Tracking During Ceremony The emblem symbolizes King Charles III’s love for the environment and nature. The projection culminates with the display of the Coronation emblem, which was designed by Sir Jony Ive. The flowers will seem to grow around the clock tower, in the colours of the Union Flag, before the words of the country's National Anthem, 'God Save The King,' appear across the building. Starting Thursday and continuing till Sunday, the clock tower will display a colourful projection inspired by the Coronation emblem of the UK's national flowers. They started building the tower in 1843 and finished in 1859, making the tower more than 160 years old.London’s iconic Elizabeth Tower, commonly known as Big Ben, is illuminated with special royal imagery this week, leading up to the highly anticipated coronation ceremony of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla on May 7. The Palace of Westminster was destroyed in a catastrophic fire in 1834 and parliament decided that they would build a new clock tower as part of the restoration works. With four clockfaces on the tower, that’s a staggering 1,292 individual pieces of glass in total! #3 – Big Ben was built 164 years ago #2 – The clock face is made from hundreds of individual pieces of glassĮvery clock face is intricately made up of 324 pieces of pot opal glass, all held together with a cast iron frame. The tower itself was previously known as ‘The Clock Tower’, but in 2012 it was renamed Elizabeth Tower to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee.

Although most people know this iconic landmark as Big Ben, this is actually the name of the bell in the tower – which weighs a whopping 13.7 tonnes! There are a lot of theories about where this name came from one of them being that the bell was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the Chief Commissioner of Works, who was affectionately known as ‘Big Ben’.

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