Ms Driscoll told the Mirror: “I’m livid. I couldn’t believe it. I’m £150 out of pocket and have no tickets. It’s disgusting.”

Ahead of the Coronation celebrations, members of the public were invited to apply through a ballot for a chance to get free tickets to the Coronation Concert on May 7 at Windsor Castle.

Earlier this week, the lucky recipients of the tickets received an email saying they were successful and were given until midday on April 27 (Thursday) to claim their tickets.

Ms Driscoll said that despite working as quickly as she could to book the hotel, she was unable to get her tickets.

She said: “It said you’ve got until the 27th to confirm, so it took a while to sort out the hotel booking, but by the time I had sorted it and changed my hotel booking, I had an email pop up to say that tickets had sold out. It wasn’t even 24 hours, it was literally two hours.”

Una added that there was “no way” that she was going to miss out on the Coronation Concert, an event which will see performances from stars such as Take That, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie.

Ms Driscoll said the concert was “why we went into overdrive to sort our weekends out in order to make ourselves available and do the mammoth journey down to Windsor”.

She said she was frustrated, disappointed, upset, and shocked by the incident. However, Ms Driscoll isn’t the only member of the public frustrated by the ballot, which was run by Ticketmaster.

Ms Driscoll said the ticket sales company was “a shambles”. She said: “This isn’t the first time Ticketmaster has been a shambles – they were a shambles with the Taylor Swift tickets, so they haven’t got the best reputation in the world.”

A spokesperson for Ticketmaster said unclaimed tickets that were released on a first-come, first-served basis sold out very quickly.

They said: “Everyone who was successful in the two main ballot rounds for the Coronation Concert was offered a guaranteed pair of tickets, provided they claimed them within three weeks.

“Today, any unclaimed tickets were released on a first-come, first-served basis to those who had previously applied to the ballot (and were unsuccessful). These inevitably went very quickly.”

The controversy over the tickets comes as the countdown to the Coronation continues on May 6.

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Thousands of people are expected to line the Mall as King Charles III and Queen Camilla are crowned.

This is the first coronation in the UK since 1953 when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at the age of just 25.

Although this Coronation is expected to be as grand as other recent royal events such as last year’s Platinum Jubilee, the King is said to have wanted a more paired-back ceremony.

To that end, there are fewer guests allowed into Westminster Abbey and a much shorter procession route from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey and back.

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