On Saturday 30th September 1553, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Mary I left the Tower of लंडन to the sound of बंदूकों firing and church bells ringing. This was her coronation procession and the अगला दिन she would be crowned क्वीन 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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