Most items of regalia used for coronation are at most 350-years-old, but there is one notable exception
Jewel-encrusted crowns, swords and sceptres may glitter the brightest at Charles III’s coronation, but of all regalia the most significant from a historical perspective may be a simple spoon.
One rare survivor is the silver-gilt coronation spoon, the oldest of all the regalia to be used, details of which were released by Buckingham Palace on Sunday. “Although perhaps the most humble in the [royal] collection it is the oldest … [and] is the one real great survivor,” said Kathryn Jones, senior curator of decorative arts at the Royal Collection Trust. Jones believes perhaps because it was just a spoon, it was not automatically associated with a the grandest of royal ceremonial occasions.
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