Dryden's long poem Absalom and Achitophel is an allegory that uses the story of the rebellion of Absalom against King David as the basis for his satire of the contemporary political situation, including events such as the Monmouth Rebellion (1685), the Popish Plot (1678) and the Exclusion Crisis. The sovereign then dons the Imperial State Crown and takes into their hands the Sceptre with the Cross and the Orb and leaves the chapel first while all present sing the national anthem. The Tel Dan Stele, discovered in 1993, is an inscribed stone erected by Hazael, a king of Damascus in the late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE. This was] not in itself a new idea, but [one whose] content and significance were greatly enlarged by him".

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The legal claim of the Scholars of Westminster School to be the first to acclaim the monarch on behalf of the common people was formally disallowed by the court, but in practice their traditional shouts of "Vivat! Following that, the monarch is anointed with holy oil, invested with regalia, and crowned, before receiving the homage of their subjects.refers to the story of Absalom, David's son; his rebellion against his father and his death at the hands of David's general, Joab. Scholars such as Israel Finkelstein, Lily Singer-Avitz, Ze'ev Herzog and David Ussishkin do not accept these conclusions. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle may have used the story of David and Bathsheba as a foundation for the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Crooked Man. St Edward's Crown and all the other regalia are laid on the High Altar of the chapel; [43] the sovereign removes the Robe Royal and Stole Royal, exchanges the crimson surcoat for the purple surcoat [115] and is enrobed in the Imperial Robe of purple velvet.

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Perhaps because the 1761 coronation of George III had been beset by "numerous mistakes and stupidities", [22] the next time around, spectacle overshadowed the religious aspect of the service. The coronation of George VI in 1937 was broadcast on radio by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), and parts of the service were filmed and shown in cinemas. A third recension was probably compiled during the reign of HenryI and was used at the coronation of his successor, Stephen, in 1135. In early modern coronations, the events inside the abbey were usually recorded by artists and published in elaborate folio books of engravings, [34] the last of these was published in 1905 depicting the coronation which had taken place three years earlier.

God is angered when Saul, Israel's king, unlawfully offers a sacrifice [28] and later disobeys a divine command both to kill all of the Amalekites and to destroy their confiscated property.

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Gale believes the team can learn important information about the Netherese Crown on the Elder Brain from this rare document.The idea of the need to gain popular support for a new monarch by making the ceremony a spectacle for ordinary people, started with the coronation in 1377 of RichardII who was a 10-year-old boy, thought unlikely to command respect simply by his physical appearance. When London was under the control of rebels, [62] HenryIII was crowned at Gloucester in 1216; he later chose to have a second coronation at Westminster in 1220. ElizabethII was asked, for example: "Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs? Others hold that the David story is a political apology—an answer to contemporary charges against him, of his involvement in murders and regicide.