The Queen explains to royal commentator Alastair Bruce how one should wear a crown in a new BBC programme.
The Imperial State Crown, along with the rest of the Crown Jewels, is valued at an impressive sum, and it is very heavy on account of all the gems encrusted within it.
Thankfully Elizabeth II has over the years learned the trick behind wearing it comfortably, which she explains on the BBC documentary, The Coronation, which will air at 8pm tonight, Sunday January 14.
“You have to keep your head very still,” she tells Alastair in the clip.
“You can’t look down to read the speech. You have to take the speech up.
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The reason behind not looking down, she explains, is to avoid injury because of the crown’s weight.
“Because if you did, your neck would break. It would fall off,” she says.
But how heavy is the Imperial State Crown in weight, given all its diamonds?
It may surprise some to discover Queen Elizabeth did not wear this crown for her coronation in 1953.
Instead, she wore something different from the Crown Jewels dating back to the 13th century: the St Edward’s Crown.
The benefit of the Imperial State Crown, Elizabeth II explains, is that it fits her head shape well – as it did that of her father, George VI.
“Fortunately my father and I have about the same shaped head,” she says.
She finishes by saying, with a smile: “There are some disadvantages to crowns but otherwise they’re quite important things.”
It is also revealed on the programme that the Queen’s Crown Jewels were hidden from Hitler’s Nazi regime during World War 2 inside an unexpected everyday object.
In case of an invasion, the valuable gems now property of Queen Elizabeth II were put inside no other than a biscuit tin, a royal BBC documentary called The Coronation will reveal on Sunday night.
This biscuit tin was stored inside a secure hiding place within the grounds of Windsor Castle, where young Elizabeth stayed during the war.