Last week, the Cabinet Office announced the creation of a Coronation Claims Office that will decide who gets to perform certain ceremonial services connected with the King’s coronation. They have three sources:[1] hereditary rights, appanages to an office or title, or land tenure by grand serjeanty.[2] The last category is by far the most common.[3]
Coronation services can be quite varied. The right to present the Sovereign with three maple cups, the right to make wafers, the right to present a glove for the Monarch’s right hand, and the right to present the Sovereign with a towel when they wash before the Coronation Banquet have all been the subject of coronation claims.[4] However, modern monarchs have generally dispensed with services related to the Coronation Banquet or the Coronation Procession. Performing a coronation service is traditionally seen as a matter of prestige, and people have gone to…
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