The coronation of Victoria as the queen of the United Kingdom took place on Thursday, 28 June 1838, just over a year after she succeeded to the throne of the United Kingdom at the age of 18. The ceremony was held in Westminster Abbey after a public procession through the streets from Buckingham Palace, to which the Queen returned later as part of a second procession.
The ceremony took five hours and suffered from a lack of
rehearsal. No one except the Queen and Lord John Thynne (Sub-Dean of
Westminster acting for the Dean), knew what should be happening. The coronation
ring was painfully forced on to her wrong finger and Lord Rolle, an elderly
peer, fell down the steps while making his homage to the Queen. A confused
bishop wrongly told her the ceremony was over and she then had to come back to
her seat to finish the service. In her Journal Victoria recorded the events of
the day, calling it 'the proudest of my life'.
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