King Charles III may take centre stage on 6 May, but it will be Queen Camilla whose crowning is attached to a more compelling and varied history:
The medieval manuscript that sets out the traditional order of service for coronations, theassumes that the ceremony will involve a king being joined – either at the time or later on – by a queen consort. But throughout British history the reality has often hinged on how monarchs have sought to market themselves.
It seemed “more legitimate to look like a stable, benign, happy couple”, Dr Hunt says. “It was about seeming legitimate even when the succession was fraught.”But the urgency to communicate a different message can take precedence. “There seems to be a political decision sometimes around the crowning of a consort,” says Dr Hunt. “It’s the same ritual that’s been used for hundreds and hundreds of years, but it has always been adapted according to particular contexts and circumstances.
“They both have thrones on the theatre, which is the staged bit in front of the altar: he has King Edward’s chair, and then there’ll be a specially made chair of lower status for the queen, and she remains there while the king is anointed and crowned. The whole ceremony happens for the king first. “The prayers around her anointing are historically really interesting, as she seems to be being crowned as someone who will bear heirs,” Dr Hunt adds.
“So a way of confronting that head on is to give her a really big ceremony, to render the previous coronation of Catherine illegitimate. The argument was that that was wrong and against God, and she and Henry should never have married,” because she had already been the wife of his brother Arthur. Over the centuries, the need to underline that sense of a strong dynasty being woven has faded, and the last queen consort to be crowned, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, had a “quite a stripped down ceremony,” Dr Hunt says.
Mary’s husband, Philip II of Spain, had wanted to be crowned, but there was “no way” it would have happened, Dr Hunt says, as “it was alright for the queen consort to have a reduced ceremony and be totally below her husband, but they couldn’t square a woman being both a wife and a queen above her husband”.
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