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
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.
Coronation of George IV
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The coronation of George IV as king of the United Kingdom took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 19 July 1821. Originally scheduled for 1 August of the previous year, the ceremony had been postpo
King's Champion
…was to challenge anyone who contested the new monarch's entitlement to the throne to trial by combat. Although this function was last enacted at the coronation of George IV in 1821, the office continues to descend through the Dymoke family. The Lord of the Manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, England, has, since the Norman…
King George IV in his coronation robes, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1821
George IV with the train of his robe being carried by eight sons of peers and the Master of the Robes
An artist's impression of Queen Caroline and Lord Hood being refused entry to the abbey by a doorman
The moment of George's crowning at Westminster Abbey