The Coronation Chair being worked on at Westminster Abbey
Imagine being at Windsor Castle in England on April 19, 2023. That's where I was. We spent four nights in London, following a week long trip to Scotland! So more travel adventures to come.
We saw the Stone of Scone in Edinburgh Castle, before it was moved to London. And we saw the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, being prepared for use for the first time in seventy years.
That chair was ordered by England's King Edward 1 in 1308 and the Stone, also known as the Stone of Destiny, was incorporated in the Coronation Chair. The chair has been used in every coronation ceremony since Henry IV in 1399. The stone was officially moved back to Scotland in 1996 and it will return there after the coronation.
Gardeners pulling up weeds at Buckingham Palace. Don’t you wish you could have them come to your garden?
Charles and Camilla portraits: The last coronation was seventy years ago..
Following the coronation, which is a religious ceremony at Westminster Abbey, Windsor will be the site of the royal luncheon and a royal concert featuring Katy Perry and Lionel Ritchie.
So there is a lot of excitement wherever we go and a thousand tasks to do to get ready, whether it's Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey or Windsor.
I'm bundled up in a Nikki Jones reversible coat with a Liamolly scarf. The weather was changeable in England and Scotland. And I'm ready to go to lunch at Windsor in a silk jacket handpainted by Gloria Lewis. My travel companion, Millicent Fauntleroy, is showing off a Bill Baber sweater and having tea in Windsor.
Millicent Fauntleroy is having tea at Windsor. We met at Northwestern University more than fifty years ago. It was the year that the Evanston, Illinois school decided to integrate the dorms and did it without telling anyone. I arrived from Wayzata, Minnesota and Millicent Brown arrived from Wilmington, North Carolina. Strangers in a strange land.