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
A Judgement in Stone a tape recording of the shooting made by one of the victims is discovered. Eunice is charged with the crime, and is mortified when her illiteracy is revealed to the world during the court proceedings. The novel was filmed twice: "The Housekeeper" (1986) starred Rita Tushingham as the illiterate maid, and "La Cérémonie" (1995), directed by Claude Chabrol, where Sandrine Bonnaire played the role. The author has said that Chabrol's version is one of the few film adaptations of her work that she is happy with. A Judgement in Stone A Judgement in Stone is a 1977 novel by British