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The coronation for Queen Elizabeth occurred on January 15, 1559. It was difficult to find a bishop, since all of them were Catholic, who was willing to crown a Protestant queen, but Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle, finally agreed. Three days before the coronation Elizabeth went to stay in the Tower, the tradition for a monarch prior to the coronation. The day before the coronation Elizabeth was in procession through London, where there were many pageants and exhibits to celebrate her. The following morning she went from Whitehall to Westminster for the ceremony itself, and William Cecil held up an English Bible, on which she took her coronation oath. There was then a great banquet for her at Westminster Hall.
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Levin, C. (2022). The Coronation. In: The Reign and Life of Queen Elizabeth I. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93009-7_2
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