Tonga's royal crown

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George Tupou II with the royal crown (1905)

The royal crown of Tonga has been the crown of the King of Tonga since 1873 . It was made for George Tupou I at the behest of Prime Minister Shirley Waldemar Baker by a goldsmith based in Sydney, Australia .

It is considered to be the largest and heaviest crown in the world.

The first coronation with the crown took place for George Tupou II on March 17, 1893. His daughter and Queen Salote Tupou III. was hereby crowned on October 11, 1918 as well as Taufaʻahau Tupou IV. (July 4, 1967), George Tupou V. (August 1, 2008) and the current King Tupou VI. (July 4, 2015).

The king's wife as titular queen wears her own crown.

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  • Royal standard with the crown at the top right

  • Symbolic representation of the royal crown

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Noel Rutherford: Shirley Baker and the King of Tonga . University Press of Hawai'i, Honolulu 1996, ISBN 0-8248-1856-3 , p. 71.
  2. ↑ Sione Latukefu: Church And State In Tonga . Australian National University Press, Canberra 1974, ISBN 0-7081-0402-9 , p. 166.
  3. ↑ Gwen Blamires: Little Island Kingdom of the South. Tonga History , Arthur Stockwell, London 1939, p. 19 f.
  4. ^ Margaret Armstrong: Reminiscences of Life in Tonga , MS 867, Auckland Institute and Museum Library, Auckland.
  5. ↑ Noel Rutherford: The Friendly Islands: A History of Tonga . Oxford University Press, Oxford 1978, ISBN 0-19-550519-0 , p. 193.
  6. ^ Melville Bell Grosvenor: South Seas' Tonga Hails A King , Volume 133, March 1968, pp. 322-343.
  7. ^ Tonga crowns King Tupou VI in lavish public coronation, parties. ABC News, July 5, 2015.