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Thu, 04 May 2023 08:00:12 +0000

[…] could pour in and snaffle what was left of the coronation banquet. Just as had happened at the previous coronation in 1727, pretty much everything was up for grabs and anything not screwed to the floor was liable to be […]

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Loyalist Trails 2023-18 – UELAC — Mon, 01 May 2023 14:30:21 +0000

[…] The Coronation of George II and Queen Caroline, 11 October 1727 ‘The most solemn, magnificent, and sumptuous ceremony’ – The History of UK Parliament Contemporaries were agreed that the coronation of George II and Queen Caroline on 11 October 1727 was spectacular. In our second Coronation-themed blog, Dr Charles Littleton looks back on the event and considers the roles played by some of those involved in it. For the Swiss traveller César de Saussure the coronation of 1727 was ‘the most solemn, magnificent, and sumptuous ceremony it is anyone’s lot in life to witness’. [Saussure, 239]. John Hervey, Lord Hervey, remembered that: The Coronation was performed with all the pomp and magnificence that could be contrived; the present King differing so much from the last, that all the pageantry and splendour, badges and trappings of royalty, were as pleasing to the son as they were irksome to the father. Hervey, Memoirs, i. 66 Saussure noted that English observers agreed that ‘the magnificence of the present coronation has far surpassed that of the preceding’. Indeed, while George I’s coronation in 1714 had cost £7,287, his son’s was budgeted at £9,430. Read […]

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By: Loyalist Trails 2023-18 – UELAC