Buckingham Palace has promised 'pageantry and tradition' for the King's coronation - looking back at the weirder elements of past coronations, here's what could be in store.
Buckingham Palace has said the King's coronation will be rooted in"longstanding traditions and pageantry" - and when it comes to the Royal Family, there's no shortage of inherited quirks and customs.At the time of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation in 1953, the Ministry of Food granted 82 applications for people to roast oxen.
It was also a requirement that the meat was given away for free to those at the festivities. The extra meat was a welcome treat at a time when the meat ration was two shillings a week.A mainstay of buffets in the decades that followed, coronation chicken was dreamed up to be served to foreign guests after the Queen's coronation.
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