The King wore St Edward’s Crown to his coronation but will wear the Imperial State Crown when delivering the speech later ...

Historians, including unofficial but highly regarded royal biographers Sally Bedell Smith and Hugo Vickers, have expressed ...

(This is why there are no official photos of King Edward VIII with a crown, as he abdicated ahead of his coronation — a fact that was touched on in Netflix's hit series The Crown.) In accordance ...

Instead, Estonia established itself as a parliamentary republic and eventually joined both NATO and the European Union. And ...

St. Edward's Crown is the one the royals use at the moment of coronation. This crown was made for the coronation of King Charles II in 1661. For centuries, the crown lacked permanent jewels ...

The palace said the original was thought to date back to the 11th-century royal saint, Edward the Confessor, who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The replacement crown, commissioned from ...

From that point, with all principle claimants as his vassals, it did not matter who became king. Ultimately Balliol took the crown. Edward's subsequent heavy-handed treatment of the Scots ...

St Edward’s Crown, the centerpiece of the Crown Jewels ... location for modification in preparation for the coronation of King Charles III next year. The move was kept secret for security ...

Harthacnut had named Magnus, King of Norway, as his successor. But when Harthacnut died, the English crown went to Harthacnut's Anglo-Saxon half-brother instead - none other than Edward the Confessor.

From that point, with all principle claimants as his vassals, it did not matter who became king. Ultimately Balliol took the crown. Edward's subsequent heavy-handed treatment of the Scots ...