On Saturday 30th September 1553, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Mary I left the Tower of Luân Đôn to the sound of súng firing and church bells ringing. This was her coronation procession and the tiếp theo ngày she would be crowned Queen of England.
The procession leaving the Tower consisted of the Queen’s messengers, trumpeters, esquires of the body, the knights of the bath (including 15 young noblemen who had been knighted that morning), heralds, bannerets, the council, the clergy, the Garter knights, the nobility, foreign ambassadors, merchants, soldiers, knights and then the Queen’s entourage....
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