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Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Later this week, royal ceremony and spectacle will be deployed in full force for the coronation of King Charles III. But this latest lavish display is nothing new – British monarchs have long used pomp and pageantry to reinforce their power and popularity. Dr Alice Hunt speaks to Ellie Cawthorne about how monarchs down the centuries have used ceremony and ritual – and how it’s gone down with the public. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:10.3

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0:13.9

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0:18.1

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0:20.6

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0:56.8

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1:02.4

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

1:05.8

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History revealed.

1:18.6

Later this week, Royal Ceremony and Spectacle will be deployed in full force for the coronation of King Charles.

1:27.6

But this latest lavish display is nothing new,

1:30.6

because British monarchs have long used pomp and pageantry

1:34.3

to reinforce their power and popularity.

1:38.4

Dr Alice Hunt is a historian of monarchy at the University of Southampton,

1:43.3

and she told me more about what ceremony and

1:45.8

ritual have offered monarchs down the centuries. Today we're going to be talking about the British

1:51.6

monarchy's relationship with ceremony and spectacle over the centuries. Why has pomp and pageantry

1:59.0

been so important to royal figures in history?

2:02.7

Pomp and pageantry has always been part of the kind of arsenal of monarchy for a long time,

2:09.6

and particularly because it's a way of broadcasting their wealth and therefore their status and therefore their power.

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