Coronation
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A coronation ceremony marks the formal investiture of a monarch with regal power using a crown. In addition to the crowning, this ceremony may include the presentation of other items of regalia, and o
The coronation of Charles VII of France (1429), detail of the painting Jeanne d'Arc (1886–1890) by Jules Eugène Lenepveu
The coronation of Charles XIV John of Sweden, by Evangelical-Lutheran archbishop Jacob Axelsson Lindblom (1818); detail of the painting by Per Krafft the Younger
Roger II of Sicily receiving his crown directly from Jesus Christ, mosaic from Martorana, Palermo
An ancient coronation from the Indian subcontinent
The coronation of the monarch of the United Kingdom is an initiation ceremony in which they are formally invested with regalia and crowned at Westminster Abbey. It corresponds to the coronations that
Coronation
…have never practised coronations (e.g. Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg). Of all European monarchies today, only the United Kingdom still retains its coronation rite. In Evangelical-Lutheran Sweden, King Oscar II, was the last to have the traditional coronation rite (1873), and subsequent monarchs have had simpler…
Coronation of Harold Godwinson at Westminster Abbey in 1066, from the Bayeux Tapestry
Coronation of Henry IV at Westminster Abbey in 1399
Alexander III at his coronation aged eight at Scone Abbey in 1249, being greeted by the royal poet who will recite the king's genealogy
Partial illustration of the State Procession prior to the Coronation of James II and Mary of Modena at Westminster, 23 April 1685