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Lucrare de Atestat La Limba Engleză: Crown Jewels of The United Kingdom and The Personal Jewel Collection of Elizabeth II
Lucrare de Atestat La Limba Engleză: Crown Jewels of The United Kingdom and The Personal Jewel Collection of Elizabeth II
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom and The Personal Jewel Collection of Elizabeth II
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Table of contents
1.
History of
Crown Jewels of the United
Kingdom
2.
What
includes Crown Jewels of the
United Kingdom
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n the United Kingdom, the Crown Jewels are a collection of more than 100 historic
ceremonial objects, including the regalia and vestments worn by the sovereign at his
or her coronation ceremony. The collection is made up of crowns, sceptres, orbs,
swords, rings, spurs, trumpets, plates, candlesticks and the royal robes, as well as
many other priceless objects. Although part of theRoyal Collection, held in trust by Queen
Elizabeth II for her successors and the nation, it does not belong to the monarch personally.
The jewels are housed in the Jewel House at the Tower of London, a vault designed for
up to 20,000 people a day to see the 23,578 diamonds, rubies, emeralds and sapphires. A
number of items are still used at coronations, State Openings of Parliamentand royal
christenings. Many pieces, like the trumpets and banqueting plate, have fallen out of use, and
some were only designed to be used once, such as the Imperial Crown of India and the ring
made for Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838.
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perimeter, where they were apprehended and taken into custody. Ever since, the Crown Jewels
have been kept under armed guard in a part of the tower known as the Jewel House.
Since the Restoration, there have been many additions and alterations to the regalia.
Starting with Charles II's successor, Queen Anne, gemstones would be hired for the
coronation and replaced with paste or crystal for display in the Jewel House, a practice which
continued until the early 20th century.
During World War II, the Crown Jewels were moved from the Tower of London to a
secret location. In 1990, The Sunday Telegraph, citing a biography of the French army
general, Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, by his widow, Simonne, reported that George VI hid the
most valuable diamonds and gemstones at the bottom of a lake near Windsor Castle, about
32 km (20 miles) outside London, where they remained until after the war. The only people
who knew of the hiding place were the king and his librarian, Sir Owen Morshead, who
apparently revealed the secret to the general and his wife on their visit to England in 1949.
In 2012, Martin Swift of Mappin & Webb was appointed as the Crown Jeweller,
responsible for the upkeep of the jewels.
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