the.com/coronation ceremony
A business meeting where the new boss gets a really expensive hat.
means The formal ritual in which a monarch is officially crowned and invested with the symbols of royal power.
from From Latin 'corona' meaning crown or wreath, itself possibly borrowed from Greek 'korone' (something curved). 'Coronation' entered English via Old French 'coronacion' around the medieval period, tied directly to the act of crown-placing. 'Ceremony' comes from Latin 'caerimonia,' meaning a sacred rite or religious observance — its deeper roots are uncertain, though some scholars connect it to Etruscan influence on early Roman religious vocabulary. Together the phrase simply names what it is: the solemn rite of crowning, dressed up in centuries of ritual to make a hat transfer feel cosmic.
- oldest ritual
- English coronation rite dates to 973 AD, Bath Abbey
- the crown jewels
- St Edward's Crown weighs nearly 5 pounds, solid gold
- sacred oil
- Monarch anointed under a canopy, hidden from cameras
- the chair
- Coronation Chair has been used since 1308, barely changed