Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A depiction of George VI being crowned while wearing the Supertunica, Stole Royal and Robe Royal. The Stole Royal (sometime erroneously called the Armilla) is an item of regalia used during the coronation of a British monarch, similar to the stoles worn as vestments by clergymen.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Around the rim of the medal is the inscription "GEORGE VI QVEEN ELIZABETH". The garter-blue ribbon is 1.25 inches (32 mm) wide, with a 3 millimetres wide white band, a 2½ millimetres wide red band and a 1½ millimetres wide white band, repeated in reverse order and separated by an 18 millimetres wide garter-blue band. The medal was awarded ...
Coronation of King George VI, London, England is a black and white photograph taken by French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, in 1937.Cartier-Bresson covered the coronation of King George VI, in London, on 12 May 1937, for the French Communist weekly Regards, focusing more on the people who were attending the official procession than in the event itself.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
English: King George VI Coronation Medal ribbon bar. United Kingdom. United Kingdom. Русский: Лента Коронационной медали Короля Георга VI.
He was interred initially in the Royal Vault until he was transferred to the King George VI Memorial Chapel inside St George's on 26 March 1969. [118] In 2002, fifty years after his death, the remains of his widow, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and the ashes of his younger daughter, Princess Margaret, who both died that year, were interred ...
The gold Supertunica is shown here worn by George VI under his Robe Royal during the crowning ceremony. The Stole Royal is also worn. The monarch enters Westminster Abbey for their coronation wearing the Robe of State. This is removed for the Anointing ceremony in which they wear the Colobium sindonis ("shroud tunic"), an intentionally plain robe.