Charles is finally crowned – that’s why Crowns Porn is here

Saturday is the day: Prince Charles will be officially crowned King Charles. With a crown of course. This is the St. Edward’s Crown (Edwardskrone), which is used exclusively for coronation.

Nice is not it? But wait until you see these 13 beautiful, legendary or just plain cool crowns!

We’ll start with the Iron Crown of the Lombards, which contains no iron. Research has shown that parts of it date back to the 4th century, making it one of the oldest European crowns. Numerous Roman-German rulers of the Middle Ages, such as Konrad II, Heinrich VII or Karl IV, had themselves crowned with her to underline their claim to Imperial Italy. And, last but not least, also Napoleon Bonaparte – but he crowned himself King of Italy, one way or another you would expect.

Catherine the Great had 4,936 (!) diamonds bought in 1762 to process them in the Tsar’s crown. Is it any wonder that the Russian people finally felt fooled and overthrew the last tsar (and wearer of this cheap headdress)?

This piece of jewelry probably dates from the 5th or 6th century and was found under a burial mound. For a long time it was customary in the Silla Empire (Korean Peninsula) to bury gold jewelry with the deceased, but this ritual was lost with the introduction of Buddhism to the empire.

It is speculated that the many gold plates were there to reflect the sunlight, reinforcing the Silla king’s symbolic role as ‘representative of the sun’. By the way, a Silla crown looks like this:

This high-profile headdress dates back to 1602, when it was made for the then Holy Roman Emperor. Franz II then held this position in 1804, only Napoleon – Emperor of the French – raged in it at the time. And so, two years later, Franz abdicated his crown, which had become irrelevant in real politics, and from then on, like Franz I, wore only Austria’s.

It survived until the end of Austria-Hungary in 1918 and is now in the Viennese treasury.

The Thai crown of victory weighs no less than 7 kilograms. It is only worn at the coronation and was last used in 2019 when the current King Rama X assumed office.

Simple (because there are few gems) yet showy (because the gems are very large) – that seems to be the motto of the Bohemian Crown of Wenceslas. Named after the Czech national saint Wenceslaus, it was traditionally given to the Bohemian kings – sometimes the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. Jesses, all the crowns they had to wear…

Louis XV was the last Bourbon king of France to belong to the “ancien regime”. His successor, Louis XVI, had to give up his crown and head at the beginning of the French Revolution. But it was not easy for him either: Louis XV. emptied the state treasury with its wars – and last but not least with the expensive crown.

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Yes, our ideas about a crown do not necessarily correspond to those of a Chinese emperor of the Ming dynasty. But our opinion does not count here, because the Wanli Emperor Zhu Yijun had to carry this so-called Mianguan himself. The mianguan was reserved for only the highest of the Chinese elite. The number of beaded cords indicated the wearer’s rank – only the emperor had 24 cords.

First of all: Monomakh’s cap is also a tsar’s crown. Unlike the above version of Catherine the Great, this one has noticeably fewer diamonds and is, so to speak, the previous model. It was probably brought to Russia in the 14th century as a gift from a Mongol prince and was used until the reign of Peter the Great.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, was crowned with this jewel. His father, who had come to power through a coup d’état, ordered the manufacture of a new crown decorated with Sassanid-era motifs to commemorate a glorious period in Persian history. Today, the crown is in the Iranian National Bank.

It is debatable whether Skanderbeg’s helmet can be counted as a crown or not. He sure is cool. Skanderbeg was a legendary Albanian national hero who fought against the Ottomans in the 15th century and was proclaimed “Lord of Albania” by his companions. Whether the helmet really belonged to Skanderbeg is disputed today.

There are no precious stones or pearls on it and this crown is not made of gold – in Switzerland it still costs a fortune.