Pomp & power: royal ceremonies through the centuries
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The Function of a Coronation
The coronation is the most important ceremony of a monarch's reign and one of the most spectacular. The function of a coronation though has changed, you know, at the beginning the coronation would be to actually kind of make the king. And this became the kind of real moment that an heir was turned into a monarch.
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