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The art of the coronation: how iconography of the ceremony has evolved over the centuries
From illuminated manuscripts to theatrically staged photography, the codified image of a crowned monarch has told the story of a rite that mixes religious and pre-Christian practices
The Stone of Destiny, the Black Prince’s ruby, sacred oil from Jerusalem: the mystical objects that will feature in the coronation of Charles III
On 6 May, the last surviving coronation ceremony in the West takes place in London’s Westminster Abbey
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'Westminster Abbey charges £27 per ticket—even God might baulk at that price'
If ever a ticket price reflected British history it is for this royal church, where the nation’s great and good are commemorated in profusion
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King Charles III faces pressure to return sacred tabot—which symbolically represents the Ark of the Covenant—to Ethiopia
Westminster Abbey, which is directly under the monarch’s jurisdiction, currently refuses to return the holy tablet
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The Westminster Retable: technically daring and now in danger
£250,000 needed to restore the greatest English medieval altarpiece