{"id":3995,"date":"2023-02-14T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/?p=3995"},"modified":"2023-02-14T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T12:39:31","slug":"queen-consort-to-wear-queen-marys-crown-at-coronation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/queen-consort-to-wear-queen-marys-crown-at-coronation\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Consort to wear Queen Mary&#8217;s Crown at coronation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Camilla, the Queen Consort, will wear Queen Mary&#8217;s Crown at King Charles&#8217; coronation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crown has been removed from display at the Tower of London in preparation for the May ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first time in nearly three centuries that an existing crown will be used to coronate a consort rather than a new commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interests of sustainability and efficiency, Her Majesty is said to have decided to relocate the Crown of Queen Mary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The crown was commissioned for Mary of Teck&#8217;s coronation as Queen Consort at the coronation of King George V, the current monarch&#8217;s great-grandfather, in 1911.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Crown Jeweller will make some minor changes and additions in keeping with the tradition of jewels being inserted uniquely for the occasion and to reflect the wearer&#8217;s individual style.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These modifications will honour Queen Elizabeth II by resetting the Crown with the Cullinan III, IV, and V diamonds, which the previous monarch frequently wore as brooches.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camilla, the Queen Consort, will wear Queen Mary&#8217;s Crown at King Charles&#8217; coronation. The crown has been removed from display at the Tower of London in preparation for the May &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Queen Consort to wear Queen Mary&#8217;s Crown at coronation\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/queen-consort-to-wear-queen-marys-crown-at-coronation\/#more-3995\" aria-label=\"More on Queen Consort to wear Queen Mary&#8217;s Crown at coronation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[275,232,59,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3997,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3995\/revisions\/3997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savebritain.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}