A History of Coronations: Around the World Today

History Tea Time

Lindsay Holiday

History

4.5 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Please take my listener survey to help improve the podcast: www.surveymonkey.com/r/airwave The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla is unique in modern times. The United Kingdom is the only monarchy in Europe which still holds coronations. Secularism and revolutions from the enlightenment through the 20th century did away with Europe’s other crowning traditions. No one wanted a coronation when crowned head where getting chopped off. But Britain is not the only modern monarchy which puts a little pomp and pizazz into celebrating the beginning of a new royal reign. Many surviving monarchies outside of Europe still hold traditional coronation and enthronement ceremonies. They are a way to keep history and culture alive, link the mystic chain of dynasty, secure the reign of a new monarch and ensure that their subjects viewed them with proper reverence. Today, we’ll explore fascinating coronation and enthronement traditions going on today in Africa, Asia and Oceania. And find out when and why 11 of Europe’s 12 surviving monarchies stopped (or never started) doing coronations. And what they do instead to commemorate the ascension of a new sovereign. Eswatini Coronation Lesotho Coronation Asante Kingdom Enstoolment Toro Kingdom Coronation Bhutan Coronation Brunei Coronation Cambodia Coronation Japan Enthronement Thailand Coronation Tonga Coronation Belgium royal inauguration Denmark royal inauguration The Netherlands royal inauguration Norway royal inauguration Spain royal inauguration Sweden royal inauguration The Vatican Papal inauguration Luxembourg inauguration Andorra inauguration Liechtenstein inauguration Monaco inauguration Check out my Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/lindsayholiday Join me every Tuesday when I'm Spilling the Tea on History! Please consider supporting me at https://www.patreon.com/LindsayHoliday and help me make more fascinating videos! Intro Music: Baroque Coffee House by Doug Maxwell Music: "Zadok the Priest" by George Frideric Handel (Creative Commons), "Bellissimo" by Doug Maxwell #womenshistory #HistoryTeaTime #LindsayHoliday Please contact advertising@airwavemedia.com if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.8	Hello and welcome to History Tea Time. I'm Lindsay Holiday and I'm spilling the tea on history.
1:18.4	A history of coronations. Around the world today
1:29.3	The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla will be unique in modern times.
1:37.3	The United Kingdom is the only monarchy in Europe which still holds coronations.
1:43.3	Secularism and revolutions from the Enlightenment
1:47.0	through the 20th century did away with Europe's other crowning traditions. No one wanted a coronation
1:54.0	when crowned heads were getting chopped off. But Britain is not the only modern monarchy, which still puts a little pomp and pizzazz into celebrating the beginning of a new royal reign.
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