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A 15-year-old boy from Lurgan in Co Armagh, has set his sights on a swimming 'Triple Crown', after he became the youngest ...
King Charles held a meeting with Scotland's First Minister, John Swinney, at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh today.
King Charles has been presented with the Scottish crown jewels - a sword, sceptre and the crown worn by Mary Queen of Scots in 1543. Queen Camilla, and the Prince and Princess of Wales were in St ...
King Charles III will be presented with Scotland’s crown jewels during a special ceremony in Edinburgh marking his coronation later today. Charles will receive a crown, a sceptre and a sword ...
These included the Crown of Scotland, made for Scottish King James V in 1540 and used to crown Mary Queen of Scots in 1543, and the Sceptre, thought to have been given to James IV by Pope ...
There the Scottish Crown Jewels will be presented to the King. The most important pieces of the regalia are the crown, scepter and sword – which date back to around the early 16th century.
King Charles III was presented with the Scottish crown jewels in a ceremony in Edinburgh marking his Coronation. It was the historic highlight of the day in which Scotland takes the opportunity to ...
The Scottish Crown Jewels are the oldest in the UK. The original English ones were melted down on the orders of Oliver Cromwell after King Charles I was executed in 1649.
King Charles III was presented with Scotland's crown jewels, which are even older than England's, in an important ceremony reaffirming Great Britain's union.
Although the Scottish Crown Jewels have been a key element of the coronation ritual, there was a notable change this time around. Due to its fragility, the royals replaced the 500-year-old Sword ...
The crown, which was placed on the Queen's coffin by hereditary Keeper of the Palace Holyroodhouse Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, took in its current form in 1540 when Scotland's King James V asked ...
In Scotland, however, the crown jewels were hidden away so carefully that they were rediscovered only a century and a half later, in 1818, when novelist Walter Scott found them in an oak chest in ...