From King George III to King Charles III, the invites capture hundreds of years of royal history.
Images of the natural world, including wildflowers, birds and insects, adorn King Charles III's invitationThe first images of King Charles and Queen Camilla's coronation invitations have been released.
They capture not only the evolving tastes of the royal family, but a snapshot of that time in history.The invitation to King George III's coronation is the oldest surviving invite in the British monarchy's history The young king had ascended to the throne almost a year earlier upon the death of his father George II, and was at that time a bachelor. He was 22 years old.
Queen Victoria's bright red and green invites were the first to be printed in colour, as well as the first to feature a blind embossed seal from the Earl Marshall of England. To this date, the serving Earl Marshall - a hereditary royal officeholder - sends out and marks all coronation invites.
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