History of Famous Jewels and Collections: Re: Non British Coronations...

Sorry, can't make out the tiaras in the pics which seem to be from when he made the oath on the bavarian Constitution in the Residence in Munich in 08.11.1913. The a few days later on 12.11 the were sme other festivities with a Mass in the Dom of Munich and later homages from the city of Munich at the Townhall in Munich. Probably the pics are from this day

https://www.hdbg.eu/koenigreich/index.php/themen/index/herrscher_id/4/id/51

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Thank you very much for this information Stafan. I was not aware of the fact that none of the Bavarian Kings were actually crowned. I have seen captions of several photographs of King Ludwig III either in a carriage or in a procession stating that he is on his way to his coronation. This I have seen both in English and in German, so I almost took it for granted that he had been crowned. It could be a "confusion" of the term "coronations" though as it looks like at least he had an enthronement ceremony with very much pomp and glitter by the looks of it. Is anybody with better eyes than mine able to identify the tiaras worn?

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No there was no coronation in Bavaria in 1914. None of the bavarian King where crowned. Don't know from which occasion the pic comes. Actually the only of the german kingdom who had coronations was prussia but they only had 2. In 17901 when Elector Friedrich III. of Brandenburg crowned himself to King in Prussia and in 1862 for King Wilhelm I., the future Emperor Wilhelm I.