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A Buckingham Palace exhibition explores the lives and fashions of two royal couples who reigned over Britain during the ...
By the time of her son's coronation in 1902, to the strains of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance Marches", Britain must already ...
Platinum Jubilee: The Queen's Coronation, which opens at Windsor ... Commissioned by Queen Victoria in 1858 and made by Garrard & Co., the necklace has since been worn by Queen Alexandra, Queen ...
She celebrated her Golden Jubilee in the Abbey in 1887 during which she sat in the Coronation Chair. Her Diamond Jubilee was held at St Paul's cathedral. Queen Victoria was crowned on 28th June 1838, ...
In fact, he managed to spend so little money on the event that it was dubbed ‘the penny coronation’. Following the death of William IV in 1837, Queen Victoria succeeded to the throne.
This tradition has continued on every subsequent coronation dress. Todd-White Art Photography/Ben Fitzpatrick Queen Alexandra’s coronation dress will be on display for the first time in 30 years.
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, having spent decades in black-clad mourning, a "stuffy establishment" passed with her, said Rachel Campbell-Johnston in The Times. By the time of her son's ...