The Coronation Regalia is dealt with in a bit more detail at this link.

It includes the brief videos of the two crowns, sceptre and orb.

 

  
Royal Archives

This is a link to A guide to the collections.

And How to use the collections.
  

  

 

The UK Parliament site has information about banquets and feasts.
From 1189 to 1821, Westminster Hall was the traditional venue for coronation banquets honouring newly-crowned monarchs. The earliest recorded being those of Prince Henry (crowned in the lifetime of his father, Henry II) in 1170 and of Richard the Lionheart in 1189.

A link to view images from the Parliamentary art collection.

Link to a blog about the last banquet in Westminster Hall held in 1821 for the coronation of George IV.

Another link for the coronation banquet of James II in 1685. 
The first course consisting of 46 dishes of hot meat was brought in by a procession of 73 people, including three officers on horseback. Amazing!!

 

The date for the coronation of King Charles III has been announced - official announcement.


 

22. The Delhi Durbar Necklace, and Cullinan VII Pendant

   Although both Field and the Royal Collection Dress for the Occasion microsite argue that this necklace was presented to Queen Mary in 1911 by the Maharanee of Patiala on behalf of the ladies of India,[1] Roberts argues that this necklace was in fact made by Garrard in 1911, incorporating “nine of the celebrated Cambridge emeralds”.[2]

   Garrard provided all the diamonds (other than the large marquise-cut Cullinan VII pendant), and mounted the Cambridge emeralds into this necklace; the cost of which was originally meant to be shared between King George V and Queen Mary.[3] However,  Queen Mary’s jewellery inventory reveals that it was actually paid in full by the King, as a 44th birthday present to Queen Mary."[3]

   Roberts describes the necklace as being “set with eight cabochon emeralds, three cushion shaped, four oval and one lozenge-shaped in cut-down gold and pavé-set diamond collets, between six large brilliants in platinum claw settings, on a double platinum chain set with 94 small brilliants, the central emerald suspending a pavé-set pear-shaped emerald on a detachable chain of 12 graduated small brilliants, and a marquise brilliant (Cullinan VII) on a detachable chain of ten graduated small brilliants”.[4]

   The Cullinan VII pendant weighs in at 8.8 carats, and is the smaller marquise stone to be cut from the Cullinan Diamond.[5] Prior to Queen Mary inheriting the Cullinan VI marquise stone from Queen Alexandra in 1925, she often detached this pendant from this necklace, attaching it to the Cullinan VIII brooch.[6] Although the Dress for the Occasion microsite argues that the necklace was not adapted until 1912 to hold the Cullinan VII,[7] this has proved unfounded as Queen Mary can be seen clearly wearing both the emerald and the diamond pendant to the Delhi Durbar in 1911,[8] and subsequent photographic sittings in the same year.[9] Furthermore, in 1912, Queen Mary

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