coronation
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But Burnham's swift "coronation" as Labour leader and now prime minister has raised questions on how he will achieve his aims.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged Tuesday to make the transition of power "as easy as possible", as two Labour lawmakers considered whether to challenge frontrunner Andy Burnham amid concern about a coronation.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
In that sense, there can be no coronation.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
The portrait commemorating his coronation, painted in Ramsay’s studio shortly after his crowning in 1761, hangs in London’s National Portrait Gallery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
This supervision, recorded on a stela erected seventy years afterward, is the first known example in Yucatan of a Mesoamerican specialty: the chaperoned coronation.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Also known as Cambodia's royal ballet, classical dance performances were originally mounted for court occasions such as coronations or marriages.
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
His “Credo” for chorus and orchestra, which capped the program proper on Thursday, recalls both Handel’s “Zadok the Priest,” the anthem traditionally associated with British coronations, and edgy mid-20th-century European modernism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
The UK Parliament prepared a detailed briefing on the history and protocol of coronations and it's quite fascinating.
From Salon ● Dec. 16, 2024
It was worn by senior courtiers at coronations and other major festivals.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2024
On his pages are painted, with immortal brilliancy, the splendid shows, the coronations, weddings, tourneys, marches, feasts, and battles of the English and French knighthood just before the close of the Middle Ages.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various
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