Close by was a small Benedictine monastery founded under the patronage of King Edgar and St Dunstan around 960A.D. This monastery Edward chose to re-endow and greatly enlarge, building a large stone .

The stone was returned for permanent display in Scotland in 1996. But it was was agreed it would return to Westminster Abbey for any future coronation ceremony. There will be a free live screening ...

Where exactly in Westminster Abbey do coronations take place? Watch Vanessa Simeoni, Head Conservator, explain the space that becomes the coronation theatre in this short introduction. The striking ...

This is the incredible scene where Buckingham Palace was turned into a replica of Westminster Abbey in the lead up to the Coronation, so it could be rehearsed in the run up to the incredible day.

Sir Antonio Pappano is also entering his final year as musical director of the Royal Opera House On Saturday 6 May, Sir Antonio Pappano will conduct the coronation service at Westminster Abbey ...

and English history when he is crowned Saturday at Westminster Abbey. The crown will be placed on Charles' head as he sits in the Coronation Chair suspended over the Stone of Scone (pronounced ...

In 1735 (eight years before her death, as it transpired), she had a wax effigy made of herself dressed in her Coronation robes ... artefact that “even Westminster Abbey might be ashamed of”.

King Edward I called for it to be made in 1296 so that the Westminster Abbey-based chair could also contain the Stone of Scone, the coronation stone of Scotland, also known as the Stone of Destiny.

With a history which stretches all the way back to the 10th century, Westminster Abbey ... but also a place for the coronation and burial of monarchs. Since 1066, the abbey has been the setting ...