The Role of Ceremony in the History of the Monarchy

Before the reign of Queen Elizabeth II fairly recently, these were not events that would have been televised. But they were intended for ordinary people, not just the royal court. Why do they need to have so much theatre around them? And I think that it is to do with their power. When they did have absolute power, a way to broadcast this would be through lavish spectacle. That's something that is really, I think, unique to this country. It waned a lot in the 18th century after Charles I was executed. They were at the time thinking we don't really want the monarch to be as powerful as they are. One of the ways in which we can reduce their powers