Sentences with 'coronation'
Example sentences and phrases with the word coronation and other words derived from it.
• « What made the situation stranger was the fact that the Byzantine emperors considered themselves to be fully "Roman" - from their perspective, Charlemagne's coronation by Leo III was a direct usurpation. »
• « His son Charles XII (r. 1697 - 1718) was so arrogant that he snatched the crown from the hand of the Lutheran minister at his own coronation and placed it on his head; he also refused to take the normal coronation oath. He was the true paragon of Swedish absolutism. »
• « But it was in Russia that the most unusual scenes unfolded. In Niyni-Novgorod, the audience was so shocked to see on the screen the huge images of the Black Madonna and Tsar Nicholas II, whose coronation Charles Moisson had just filmed, that they took Moisson for the incarnation of Satan. »