On Saturday 30th September 1553, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Mary I left the Tower of 伦敦 to the sound of 枪 firing and church bells ringing. This was her coronation procession and the 下一个 日 she would be crowned 皇后乐队 of England.
The procession leaving the Tower consisted of the Queen’s messengers, trumpeters, esquires of the body, the knights of the bath (including 15 young noblemen who had been knighted that morning), heralds, bannerets, the council, the clergy, the Garter knights, the nobility, foreign ambassadors, merchants, soldiers, knights and then the Queen’s entourage....
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