The Coronation of His Majesty King Edward VII
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had been on the throne for more than sixty years. This meant that the coronation of her son Edward VII would have been a whole new experience for many people involved in the arrangements.
This did not deter Rosa Ede, the resourceful head of Ede & Son. She seized the opportunity and wrote to Buckingham Palace ‘soliciting the honour of making the Coronation Robes for His Majesty the King’.
Permission was granted and the firm immediately set to work. Again, only the finest materials were used, including magnificent purple silk velvet, gold thread and best ermine for the coronation robes, the best white cambric for the Colobium Sindonis and crimson silk lining for the cloth-of-gold dalmatic and imperial mantles.
King Edward VII died only 9 years later and the country prepared for a second coronation. Since the robes worn by Edward VII were practically new, it was decided that they would be adjusted for the coronation of His Majesty King George V.
