Medieval Coronations: Jewels & After Parties

Gone Medieval

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🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

All this month, Gone Medieval has been your perfect companion to the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III.

In this final special episode, Matt Lewis takes a look at the use and meaning of coronation regalia and what happens after the ceremonial aspects - the coronation banquet. He is joined by Lucinda Gosling of the Mary Evans Picture Library and the author of more than 12 books including Royal Coronations, published by Shire Books.

This episode was produced by Rob Weinberg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit.
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0:23.0	Welcome to this episode of Gone Medieval, I'm Matt Lewis.
0:25.8	This is the final episode in our specials on coronations and we're going to take a close
0:29.5	look at the regalia that's used in coronation ceremonies to work out what it is and what
0:34.4	it all means.
0:35.4	And then we're going to look at the coronation banquet to the after party.
0:39.4	I'm delighted to welcome Jacinda Gosling of Mary Evans picture library and the author
0:43.8	of more than 12 books including Royal Coronations published by Shia Books.
0:48.8	A regular writer on Royal History, Jacinda has contributed to various publications including
0:53.3	Majesty, Illustrated London News, Tatler and History today.
1:05.3	Welcome to Gone Medieval Lucy.
1:06.9	Hello Matt, hi.
1:08.1	So to start off with we've kind of covered elements of the coronation through this series
1:11.7	and we've steered clear of the regalia and the banquet saving that for you.
1:16.0	So why is the regalia an important part of the coronation ceremony?
1:21.7	Is it something that's evolved over time or is it generally stayed the same throughout
1:25.3	the history of coronations?
1:27.7	It has evolved but I think most of you would be quite surprised to learn that most elements,
1:33.6	most regalia do go back a thousand years and beyond that actually and obviously the form
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