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WOW!, that looks great. Congrats to Stephanie for her amazing work and congrats to you, @Mercian, for finding the photo! Paper is fully OK, no need for vellum (although, no cow is bred, fed and killed for the skin).

Wow, that is beautiful. I'm not a monarchy fan in general, but I do love all the artisans who've worked on the coronation. I watched a documentary on the tailors and embroiders preparing the uniforms with new cyphers on them. Frankly, I enjoyed it more than the actual ceremony, but hey it's not for me (being a US citizen and all.)

2 hours ago, DilettanteG said:

Frankly, I enjoyed it more than the actual ceremony, but hey it's not for me (being a US citizen and all.)

I once visited the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool.
When I was there, they were hosting an exhibition of the robes that had been made for various ranks of the local clergy in the 1920s & 1930s. It’s not the sort of thing that I had ever taken even the slightest interest in, but I decided to have a look at the exhibition.

The robes had been embroidered by hand, by Anglican nuns. The quality of the work was just awe-inspiring. I was astonished by it.
One would, I think, be very hard-pressed to find any work of that quality nowadays, anywhere.

One might still find work of the same quality produced for our various Royal ceremonies, or for those of the Vatican, but I doubt that one would still find anything that good produced for what is a mere ‘provincial’ outpost!

 

As for our monarchy, during the coronation one of the commentators opined that, if you look at the constitutional arrangement for providing a Head of State here, which has evolved over about a thousand years, nobody - whether a single person, or a committee of people - would ever have sat down and designed this system deliberately 😁

But I personally find myself in complete agreement with what he said right after that - which was that, out of all the multifarious ways that different polities around the world select/appoint their Head(s) of State, our bizarre, cobbled-together, hodge-podge of abstruse laws and ancient traditions is, astonishingly, actually probably the least-worst system that is available 🤪 

 

Obviously, I don’t want to get into a ‘political’ discussion out in the open - but I will happily explain (to anyone who is interested) why it is that I think this via PM.

And of course I am saying this after only having experienced the reign of Elizabeth II. If I had been around in the days of King John, or Richard II, or Charles I (when ‘the rules of the game’ were very different) I might have formed a rather different view! 😉