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 ...
Roses. For the rosebushes he encourages vocally.
ReplyDeleteIt 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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