Coronation Chair

This article is about the chair used in coronations of British monarchs. For other uses, see Coronation chair.
The chair in 2023 without the Stone of Scone, which was returned to Scotland in 1996

The Coronation Chair, also known as St Edward's Chair or King Edward's Chair, is an ancient wooden chair[a] on which British monarchs sit when they are invested with regalia and crowned at their coronations. It was commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I to contain the Stone of Scone, which he had captured from the Scots. The chair was named after Edward the Confessor and for centuries (until 1997) it was kept in his shrine at Westminster Abbey.[2] The Coronation Chair was last used at the Coronation of King Charles the III and Queen Camilla at Westminster Abbey in 2023.

  1. ^ Coronation Chair. Vol. 22. 1929. p. 163. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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