Coronation of Mary I of England

Coronation of Mary I
	Mary I of England depicted crowned on her Groat
Date	1 October 1553
Location	Westminster Abbey, London, England
Participants	Queen Mary I; Bishop of Winchester; Peers of the Realm;

The coronation of Mary I as Queen of England and Ireland took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on Sunday 1 October 1553. This was the first coronation of a queen regnant in England, a female ruler in her own right.^[1] The ceremony was therefore transformed. Ritual and costume were interlinked. Contemporary records insist the proceedings were performed "according to the precedents", but mostly these were provisions made previously for queens consort.^[2]

^ Sarah Duncan, Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
^ Judith M. Richards, 'Mary Tudor as 'Sole Quene'?: Gendering Tudor Monarchy', The Historical Journal, 40:4 (December 1997), p. 900.

[1] Sarah Duncan, Mary I: Gender, Power, and Ceremony in the Reign of England’s First Queen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

[2] Judith M. Richards, 'Mary Tudor as 'Sole Quene'?: Gendering Tudor Monarchy', The Historical Journal, 40:4 (December 1997), p. 900.

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