In his Easter speech, King Charles highlights faith, compassion, and humanitarian endeavors by presenting 152 local heroes with Maundy coins at Durham Cathedral.

This year at the Cathedral of Durham, there was a Maundy Thursday service around which King Charles distributed commemorative coins for royal Easter festivities to 152 people. The King presented the coins made especially for the occasion, consisting of 76 males and 76 females, equal in every sense as a gesture of appreciation for their selfless service to the community and altruistic activities.

The Maundy ceremony saw the King's wife, Queen Camilla, who stood with him during cancer treatment last year. During the King's Easter address, where he emphasized nurturing interfaith understanding and building in honor of those who bring humanitarian assistance amid conflict and natural disasters, this event took place.

Local residents, usually seniors, get the coins, and maundy money is customarily handed to the old. The monarch would wash the feet of the impoverished, much like Jesus did, in one of the earliest royal rituals, which dates at least to the 13th century and the reign of King John.

This year's Maundy money includes a £5 coin commemorating the Queen Mother and a 50p piece commemorating World War Two. Each beneficiary received two small leather bags from the King, one red and one white. The red purse has little cash in it as a present for food and clothing, including the commemorative coins and the white purse carries Maundy money in pence given according to the age of the monarch.