5/26/2023 0 Comments The God Boy by Ian Cross![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Spain discontinued them in 1492 - they were not revived when the monarchy was restored there in 1975 - Denmark in 1849 and Sweden in 1873. ![]() Of the other European monarchies, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands have never held coronations. The United Kingdom is the only country which still marks the accession of a new monarch with a coronation. Here, if anywhere, we find the divinity which, as Shakespeare observed more than four hundred years ago, hedges the British throne. Packed with religious symbolism and imagery, they exude mystery, bind together church and state through the person of the monarch, and clearly proclaim the derivation of all power and authority from God and the Christian basis on which government is exercised and justice administered.Īt their coronations kings and queens are not simply crowned and enthroned, but consecrated - set apart and anointed, dedicated to God and invested with sacerdotal garb and symbolic regalia. Coronations point to the sacred nature of the United Kingdom monarchy. ![]()
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