Also known as St. Edward's Chair or King Edward's Chair, the Coronation Chair is the ancient throne on which British monarchs are crowned at their coronation. The piece was first commissioned by ...

8, her eldest son Prince Charles has assumed the throne ... at England's Reading University and author of Young Elizabeth: The Making of the Queen, tells PEOPLE. When the coronation is announced ...

Now, she is 16th in line for the throne because of an old law ... when King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England. The silver gilt coronation spoon — which is used to dispense ...

Harold also claimed the late King had promised him the throne on his ... 25 years prior to his coronation, so he actually knew William better than his English nobles. England had been ruled ...

In 1952, newly knighted British architect Sir Hugh Casson scored ... Architect for street decorations in Westminster to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The Queen had ascended the throne on ...

When she came to the throne in 1952, a svelte young woman with raven-black hair, rationing from the Second World War had only recently been lifted; the British ... took at her coronation: not ...

The long list of foreign royals and EU leaders attending Saturday’s coronation “signifies a new era of the soft power of the British monarchy”, said the i news site’s policy editor Jane ...