According to BBC television, more than 14 million people turned in to watch King Charles III’s coronation on Sunday, May 7.
At its peak, 13.4 million people tuned in to BBC One, with an average of 11.9 million watching the ceremony on Saturday, May 6.
A signed version on BBC Two peaked at 1.7 million viewers and averaged 1.4 million, according to a statement from the public broadcaster.
The coronation on Saturday, the first in Britain in 70 years, was just the second to be televised and the first to be shown in color film.
But the figures are way lower than previous major royal occasions.
Last year’s state funeral of Charles’s mother Queen Elizabeth II attracted one of the biggest television audiences in the UK in modern times.
An estimated average audience of 26.2 million watched on TV sets alone, peaking at 28 million, including 18.5 million on the BBC.
In 2011, more than 24 million viewers watched the wedding of Charles’s son Prince William on BBC terrestrial television.
In 1997, more than 32 million viewers in the UK watched the funeral of Charles’s first wife and William’s mother, Princess Diana.