The Coronation Chair | Westminster Abbey

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For over seven centuries, the Coronation Chair of Westminster Abbey has served as the sacred seat upon which 31 English and later British monarchs have been crowned. Its history begins with King Edward I, who commissioned the chair between 1300 and 1301 specifically to house the Stone of Scone, the ancient Scottish coronation stone seized in 1296. By embedding the stone in the base of the chair, Edward intended to symbolize England’s supremacy over Scotland and to unite royal authority under a s

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