Have I got this right? That the Supertunica worn by an English monarch at the Coronation has a historical connection with the uniform of a Consularis of the Byzantine Emnpire?
That it is embroidered with flower symbols for each of the monarch's realms?
That because of a long tradition which few readers will need to have explained to them, Queen Victoria (or, if you prefer, Princess Alexandrina of Saxe Coburg etc..) wore a Supertunica enriched with fleurs de lys?
But that her eldest son 'Edward VII', instead, sported the lotus which was held to symbolise India?
I wonder what ... er ...
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Roses. For the rosebushes he encourages vocally.
It might have been in the souvenir program for the last coronation, but in any case, something contemporary to it, there was a linking of the Supertunica with the anointing and compared it to a priest's vestments.
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