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
Katharine Seymour Day Beecher Hooker and a grandniece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In 1924 she bought the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and converted it into a museum. She died on June 4, 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut at the age of 94. She was buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame. Katharine Seymour Day Katharine Seymour Day (May 8, 1870 - June 4, 1964) was a member of the Hartford City Planning Commission. She worked to preserve historic homes in Connecticut and helped establish the Children’s Museum of Hartford and the home of Mark Twain as