Imperial Robe

It is donned in the final stages of the ceremony for the procession of the monarch from Westminster Abbey to the waiting Gold State Coach.

The robe is donned at the end of the coronation when, after being crowned and receiving homage the monarch proceeds to the shrine and tomb of Saint Edward the Confessor.

[3] The monarch enters the Gold State Coach to return to Buckingham Palace where their coronation day concludes with a balcony appearance to the waiting public.

Elizabeth II firstly considered reusing her grandfather's Imperial Robe, as her father did at his coronation in 1937,[4] but instead decided to commission a new one, in line with tradition.

[7] It is decorated with embroidery featuring 18 types of gold thread, seed pearls, crystals and coloured silks.