The Dean then put the regalia in the wrong order on the high altar and twice handed the wrong sceptre to the wrong peer. The elderly Dean of Westminster, who died later that year, fell down steps as he was carrying St Edward's Crown. Whilst the King was successfully anointed and crowned, there were slight mishaps. Thirty-four days later, he signed the Magna Carta, which set out the rights of freeborn English subjects.Ĭoronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth - May 12, 1937 This Friday also marks the 808th anniversary of the ultimatum that English barons delivered to the hated King John. George's crowning came exactly 869 years after Matilda of Flanders, the wife of William the Conqueror, enjoyed her own coronation at the Abbey, which back then had been standing for less than a decade. The Royal Family - including an 11-year-old Princess Elizabeth and her sister Margaret - later waved to crowds on Buckingham Palace's balcony, just as the King did at the weekend.Įight years later, the royals returned to the balcony, this time with Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as the country celebrated VE day, on May 8, 1945. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were crowned inside Westminster Abbey on May 12, 1937, five months after the monarch's Edward VIII had abdicated so he could marry divorcee Wallis Simpson. King Charles's Coronation on Saturday came nearly 86 years after the crowning of his grandparents.
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