A number of anti-monarchy protests are being organised ahead of the King’s coronation on May 6.

The anti-monarchy group Republic is planning a protest along the coronation procession route. “This is the moment we make our objection loud, visible and impossible to ignore,” reads a statement on the Republic website. “Pledge to add your voice to the call for a republic.”

Campaigners say the coronation will be a “significant game changer” for the republican movement. More than 1,300 people have pledged to protest, with more participants expected to sign up in the coming week.

Patrick Thelwell – AKA the 23-year-old anti-monarchist who egged Charles back in November – will be joining Republic to protest the coronation on May 6. “The monarchy is the epitome of hierarchy, and that’s the biggest problem in our society,” they say. “It needs to be abolished so that we can progress as a society, because there’s no point just getting the Tory government out of power – we need systemic reform.”

Republic’s London protest is the biggest action planned on May 6, but there are a number of smaller protests happening across the country. Charlie*, 20, is a member of the Oxford branch of No More Royals, a queer and youth-led anti-monarchy organisation. “We’re going to be hosting a street party slash protest in central Oxford while the coronation is taking place, with speeches, music, food and activities, raising money for a local homelessness charity in the process,” they say.

“Fundamentally, we reject the idea that anyone deserves more power or privilege than anyone else because of the family they are born into,” they continue, explaining why they’ve decided to take a stand against the coronation. “The monarchy has actively participated in, and continues to benefit from, colonialism and imperialism. The British crown, at the behest of the United States, continues to illegally occupy the Chagos Islands. The Kohinoor remains in the crown jewels, stolen from the Indian subcontinent. Queen Elizabeth II’s armed forces put hundreds of thousands of Kenyan civilians into concentration camps during the Mau Mau uprising.”

“The royals live in opulence and spend their money on paying the legal fees of paedophile princes, while ordinary people in Britain and its ransacked former colonies live impoverished lives, with many not even having enough to eat,” they continue.

Many others share this anti-monarchical sentiment, with young people particularly likely to feel either ambivalent towards or actively opposed to the monarchy. The National Centre for Social Research found that just 14 per cent of under 35-year-olds think it is “very important” for Britain to have a monarchy, while recent research from Panorama found that just 32 per cent of young people believe that Britain should continue to have a monarchy.

Additionally, while an estimated 16,000 street parties were organised around the country to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee last year, just 412 have been registered for the coronation so far. It’s possible more are organised but have not been officially registered, but equally, it’s possible people don’t really give a fuck. After all, a recent YouGov study found nearly two thirds of people either don’t care at all or care very little about the coronation.

You can sign up for Republic’s protest and find more information about how to take part here, while No More Royals has a list of other protests and anti-monarchy actions taking place across the country on their Instagram.