Then, she complained the bejeweled topper was too heavy, and she began wearing a lighter headpiece. However, during her 1953 public coronation, Queen Elizabeth wore a crown she never donned again.

James Crawford-Smith is a Newsweek Royal Reporter, based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on the British royal family and royal fashion. He has covered contemporary and historic issues ...

King Charles has shared a childhood memory of his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, wearing the Crown Jewels at bathtime for practice ahead of her coronation. Charles is seen recalling the ...

Elizabeth's advice was ... the historic ceremony on Tuesday. Queen Camilla appeared for the second time wearing the historic George IV Diamond Diadem, a crown-like tiara created for the 1821 ...

The late Queen Elizabeth was painted wearing the diadem on several occasions, including her portrait by Lucian Freud in 2001. Most famously, perhaps, she was pictured in the crown in her most iconic ...

The King has recalled how his late mother would wear her heavy Imperial State ... who were hand-picked to attend the crowning of Queen Elizabeth. Last year 12 of them came back to the UK to ...

Queen Elizabeth used to wear her Imperial State Crown to bath her kids. The late monarch - who died in September 2022 aged 96 - ascended to the throne following the death of her father King George VI ...

Speaking about his mother's coronation, King Charles has revealed that the late Queen Elizabeth II would often wear the monarch's crown when she was bathing him as a child. The monarch ...

James Crawford-Smith is a Newsweek Royal Reporter, based in London, U.K. His focus is reporting on the British royal family and royal fashion. He has covered contemporary and historic issues ...