{"id":5464,"date":"2022-12-06T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5464"},"modified":"2025-03-27T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T03:11:07","slug":"what-is-st-edwards-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-st-edwards-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"What is St Edward\u2019s Crown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>What is the St Edward\u2019s Crown?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>St Edward\u2019s Crown is the crown historically used at the moment of Coronation, and was worn by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at her Coronation in 1953.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It was made for Charles II in 1661, as a replacement for the medieval crown<\/strong> which had been melted down in 1649. The original was thought to date back to the eleventh-century royal saint, Edward the Confessor \u2013 the <strong>last Anglo-Saxon king of England.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Edward the Confessor<\/strong> (reigned 1042-66), who deposited his Royal ornaments for safe-keeping in Westminster Abbey, may have been the <strong>first monarch to assemble the regalia<\/strong>, or the distinct objects worn exclusively by royals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Britain is the only European monarchy still using its regalia for the consecration<\/strong> ceremony of crowning the Sovereign.<\/li>\n<li>Other items included in the regalia are the <strong>Coronation Chair<\/strong> (used at every coronation since 1300), the <strong>two Royal maces, three swords<\/strong> and St Edward\u2019s Staff (dating from 1661).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Imperial State Crown<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is worn by the monarch at the end of the coronation ceremony and at formal occasions like the State Opening of Parliament, reminding us the Crown Jewels is a working collection.<\/li>\n<li>It has the <strong>Cullinan diamond<\/strong> (also known as <strong>the Star of Africa<\/strong>) embedded in it, considered among the <strong>biggest diamonds ever discovered.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Another stone featured in it is the Black Prince\u2019s Ruby, believed to have origins in or around Afghanistan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) Who can touch the St Edward&#8217;s crown?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>There are strict rules surrounding the crown jewels, and only three people in the world are allowed to touch them: the current monarch, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the crown jeweller.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/what-is-the-st-edwards-crown-to-be-worn-by-king-charles-iii-on-his-coronation-8307212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Express<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Edward\u2019s Crown was made for Charles II in 1661 &#038; worn by Queen Elizabeth at her Coronation in 1953<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}