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Imperial Crown
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An Imperial Crown is usually, through not always, a crown used by a monarch on state occasions other than at the moment of actual coronation, when a special coronation crown is used. It may also refer to a crown used for the coronation of emperors.
Famous examples of imperial crowns
Imperial State Crown - the crown manufactured for King George VI in 1937, and modelled on an earlier imperial crown from the reign of Queen Victoria, used by British monarchs at state ceremonies such as the State Opening of Parliament.
Imperial Crown of India - the Imperial Crown worn by King George V at the Delhi Durbar in 1911.
Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire - coronation crown of Holy Roman Emperors.
Imperial Crown of Austria - crown of the Austrian Empire.
Imperial Crown of Russia - coronation crown of the Russian Tsars.
Consort crown
Coronation crown
state crown
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Imperial Crown Of India
The Imperial Crown of India is a part of the British Crown Jewels. It was created for George V as Emperor of India to wear at the Delhi Durbar in 1911. The need for the new crown lay in the fact that the crown jewels themselves are forbidden to leave the United Kingdom by law.
King George and Queen Mary travelled to Delhi for the Durbar service, proclaiming them as Emperor and Empress of India to the princes of India. The King was not crowned at the service because the Archbishop of Canterbury did not think it suitable for a Christian religious service to take place in a Hindu country. Therefore the King wore the crown as he entered the arena where the Durbar took place.
The Crown Jewellers created the crown at the cost of £60,000. It weighs 34.05 ounces and is set with emeralds, rubies, sapphires and 6,100 diamonds. The considerable weight of the crown led King George to complain after the Durbar that his head hurt.
The crown has not been worn by any Sovereign since then.
It can be viewed in the Jewel House at the Tower of London, alongside the other crown jewels.
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Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
Honours of Scotland
Honours of the Principality of Wales
St Edward's Crown
Imperial State Crown
Sceptre with the Cross
Sceptre with the Dove
Sovereign's Orb
Category: British monarchy
Category:Crowns
Category:State Ritual & Ceremonial
Imperial State Crown
The Imperial State Crown is one of the British Crown Jewels.
The Crown is of a design similar to St Edward's Crown: it includes a base of four crosses pattee alternating with four fleurs-de-lis, above which are four half-arches surmounted by a cross. Inside is a velvet cap with an ermine border. The Imperial State Crown includes several precious gems, including: 2,868 diamonds, 273 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds, and 5 rubies. It includes several famous jewels. The Cross atop the Crown is set with a sapphire taken from the ring of Edward the Confessor. The Black Prince's Ruby is set on the front cross pattee. Furthermore, the famous Cullinan II, or Lesser Star of Africa, is set on the front of the Crown.
It is generally worn at the end of a coronation when the new monarch departs from Westminster Abbey and is not normally the actual crown used at the moment of coronation. However it was actually worn during the ceremony by Queen Victoria and King Edward VII, both of whom complained about the weight of the normally used crown, St Edward's Crown. Victoria was the only monarch to use her Imperial State Crown as her coronation crown.
The Imperial State Crown is worn annually by the Queen at the State Opening of Parliament. Traditionally, the Crown and other jewels leave in their own carriage and arrive at the Palace of Westminster prior to the Queen's departure from Buckingham Palace. They are then transported to the Robing Room, where the Queen dons her robes and wears the Crown.
The current Imperial State Crown was manufactured for the coronation of King George VI in 1937. It is an exact replica of the earlier Imperial State Crown manufactured for Queen Victoria, but is of a more lightweight design and less uncomfortable to wear. Because of its weight (910 g), monarchs often choose to wear the Imperial State Crown in their private
Imperial Crown Of Russia
The Imperial Crown of Russia is the crown that was used to crown Tsars of Russia until the abolition of the monarchy in 1917.
Background
In 1719, Emperor Peter I "the Great" founded the earliest version of what we now know as the State Diamond Fund of the Russian Federation. Peter I had visited other European nations, and introduced many innovations to Russia, one of which was the creation of a permanent fund to house a collection of jewels which belonged not to the Romanov family, but to the Russian State.
Manufacture
The Great Imperial Crown made in 1762 for the coronation of Catherine the Great by the court jeweller, J.Pauzie, represents the beauty and skilled workmanship. It is adorned with five thousand diamonds arranged in a splendid pattern of laurel wreaths and oak branches (some Russian sources state this number as 4,836) and number fine, large white pearls. The crown is also decorated with one of the seven historic stones of the Russia's Diamond Collection - a large precious red spinel weighing 398.72 carats which was brought to Russia by Nicholas Spafary, the Russian envoy to China from 1675 to 1678.
The glitter of the diamonds is enhanced by two rows of gleaming pearls and the crown is topped by a huge red spinel, the second largest in the world, which weighs almost 400 carats.
Last usage
The imperial crown was last used in 1894 to crown Tsar Nicholas II.
It is currently on display in the Moscow Kremlin.
Following the tradition of the Byzantine Emperors, the Tsar of Russia placed the crown on his own head. This left no doubt that, in the Russian system, the imperial power came directly from God. The prayer of the metropolitan, similar to that of the Patriarch of Constantinople for the Byzantine Emperor, confirmed the imperial supremacy.
After the emperor has recited the Nicene Creed as a profession of faith, and after an invocation of the Holy Ghost and litany, the emperor assumes the purple chlamys and
Imperial Crown Of Austria
The Crown of the Empire of Austria (in German: ''Österreichische Kaiserkrone'' or ''Krone des Kaisertums Österreich'') was originally the personal crown of emperor Rudolf II. It is therefore also known as the Crown of Rudolf II, or the Crown of the Austrian Empire.
Because the Imperial Regalia of the Holy Roman Empire, especially the Imperial Crown, were all kept in Nürnberg and could only leave the city for the coronation, some rulers had their own personal crowns made. For example when they attended a session of the Imperial Diet (''Reichstag''), they attended with their own crowns. The oldest depiction of such a private crown is an etching by Albrecht Dürer of Emperor Maximilian I, where a depiction of a crown is seen that might have influenced the appearance of crown of Rudolf later.
The Imperial Crown was actually never used for a coronation, since the Empire of Austria, as opposed to the Holy Roman Empire, was a hereditary monarchy under the Habsburg Dynasty, and therefore such an act of legitimation was not seen as necessary. The ceremony was more of an act of investiture on the monarchs official ascension to the throne.
The crown of Rudolf II was made 1602 in Prague by Jan Vermeyen, one of the most outstanding goldsmiths of his time, who was called extra from Antwerp. The crown is made out of three parts: the circlet (''Kronreif''), the high arch (''Kronbügel''), and a mitre (''Mitra''). It therefore follows the model of the mitral crowns, which derive its shape from the cap of bishops.
Circlet
The circlet in itself already forms a crown- the mitre and the high arch were put in extra so to speak. It symbolises the royal authority. Out of it are 6 lilies, which were probably inspired by the bohemian St. Wencelslas Crown. The lilies are also sometimes associated with the fleurs-de-lis of the Valois. The numeral eight is a theme that was also taken from the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, since the reif is made out of eight
Imperial Crown Of Austria
this article was quite difficult to translate because of some very specific words. Does anyone know how you properly refer to the arches of the crown? and how do you translate "Rechinen", which is a precious stone, correctly into english? Also if there are problems with the grammar or the syntax, feel free to correct it. Please do not change the heading of the this article. In German the crown is known as "Österreichische Kaiserkrone", which translates into Imperial Crown of Austria or Austrian Imperial Crown.
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