Henry Lee of Ditchley
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Sir Henry Lee KG, of Ditchley, was Queen's Champion and Master of the Armouries under Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Sir Henry Lee by Antonis Mor, 1568
Margaret Wyatt, by Hans Holbein
Ditchley Portrait of Elizabeth I by Marcus Gheeraerts
Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts
King's Champion
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The Honourable The King's Champion is an honorary and hereditary office in the Royal Household of the British sovereign. The champion's original role at the coronation of a British monarch was to chal
Henry Lee of Ditchley
…Sir Henry Lee KG (March 1533 – 12 February 1611), of Ditchley, was Queen's Champion and Master of the Armouries under Queen Elizabeth I of England. Henry Lee, born in Kent in March 1533, was the grandson of Sir Robert Lee (d.1539), and…
The King's Champion in 1821, Henry Dymoke, the last holder of the office to lay down his challenge at a coronation.
At the 1821 coronation banquet in Westminster Hall, the King's Champion makes the third and last challenge before the royal table, the last time that this ceremony was enacted.
The Banquet at the Coronation of George IV by George Jones showed the event in a pageant-like scene.