King and Queen presented with Coronation Roll
The King and Queen have been presented with the Coronation Roll, an official record of the Coronation, by the Clerk of the Crown in Chancery at Buckingham Palace. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 May I present your coronation roll?
00:07 It's from Miles.
00:09 It's 30 pages and what we've tried to do is to honour the traditions of the role,
00:15 but also do a few things to embrace modernity as well.
00:19 So this is the title page, which although William and Mary did have a title page,
00:25 it didn't have the same amount of illustration as this does.
00:30 And then as you'll see when we show you the historic rolls,
00:33 the colours are drawn from Edward II's roll, which is the earliest surviving roll,
00:41 and this format is exactly the same as Her Late Majesty.
00:45 At least it's in English, isn't it?
00:47 It is in English, exactly.
00:49 It's a mixture of Latin, ancient Norman French in the medieval period.
00:55 But I'm riveted. I just read that after 1308 and the year of the second,
01:03 there was quite a lot of missing all the way through. It's extraordinary.
01:08 I think this is going to be the 18th roll, who knows?
01:11 Disintegrated or...
01:12 Possibly. Possibly.
01:14 And they're all held in the National Archives. We've got a few to show you.
01:17 It's all actually sewn together.
01:19 So it's stitched together, so it's paper, so there's no animal product involved.
01:25 And they're sewn in what's called chancery stitch, so there's 30 pages.
01:29 It's something like 11,600 words.
01:31 And they're literally rolled up, rolled down.
01:34 So you're about to meet the heraldic artist who's done that,
01:37 and then the calligrapher will just do a...
01:40 I was reassured this paper had been used since the medieval period
01:44 and there are still surviving examples of it, so it should last for a few hundred years.
01:50 And then we're going to show you the procession,
01:55 because what we've done that was slightly different to previous rolls is...
01:58 The pages, if you've got it wrong, you can check again.
02:00 I certainly didn't dare. We've had so many people check it, I was very much hoping.
02:07 And the underlining in red, is that a particular...?
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02:39 We're going to be selling it around and launching it on Friday.
02:42 Fantastic. There's a lot of detail in it, that's great.
02:44 Yeah, absolutely. We've worked with a lot of different organisations to pull in...
02:48 I'm just going to walk to the right in a moment, if that's okay.
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