The King wore St Edward’s Crown to his coronation but will wear the Imperial State Crown when delivering the speech later ...

From that point, with all principle claimants as his vassals, it did not matter who became king. Ultimately Balliol took the crown. Edward's subsequent heavy-handed treatment of the Scots ...

Harthacnut had named Magnus, King of Norway, as his successor. But when Harthacnut died, the English crown went to Harthacnut's Anglo-Saxon half-brother instead - none other than Edward the Confessor.

Edward VII died on 6th May 1910. After his coronation the King and Queen travelled to Delhi where they attended a vast outdoor gathering known as the Delhi Durbar. The Imperial Crown of India (now in ...