Coronation of the British monarch on Christmas Day, possibly in imitation of the Byzantine emperors, and John's was on Ascension Day. Elizabeth I consulted her astrologer, John Dee, before deciding on an auspicious date. The coronations of Charles II in 1661 and Anne in 1702 were on St George's Day, the feast of the patron saint of England. Under the Hanoverian monarchs in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was deemed appropriate to extend the waiting period to several months, following a period of mourning for the previous monarch and to allow time for preparation of the ceremony. In the case of every monarch
Thomas Thynne (died 1682) murdered by order of the future British monarch George I, with whose wife, Sophia Dorothea of Celle, he was having a notorious affair. After Thynne's death, his widow, Lady Elizabeth, married Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset. Thynne's remains were interred in a marble tomb in Westminster Abbey. The tomb is decorated in part with a representation of the murder of Thynne in 1682. A popular ballad summed up the episode in form of a mock epitaph: Thomas Thynne (died 1682) Thomas Thynne (1647/8–12 February 1682) was an English landowner of the family that is now headed by the Marquess