National Archives house wealth of documents that reveal meticulous planning and extravagances
Coronations are based on continuity, and meticulous records stretching back hundreds of years are kept at theDocuments include bills submitted to the exchequer for the robes worn by past monarchs such as Elizabeth I when she was crowned in 1559.
“Even details on the regalia that is being made, because the Cromwellians had melted down the previous regalia. Another tome details invoices for the coronation wardrobes from the death of Edward IV in 1483 to Henry VIII’s 1509 coronation, with lists of purchases for clothing, banners, carpets, tapestries “everything needed for the people and the space” for the coronations, said historian Sean Cunningham.
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