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
Maria Seymour-Conway, Marchioness of Hertford the Earl of March (since 1778 Duke of Queensberry) left much of his fortune to Maria Emilia when he died in 1810. On 18 May 1798, Maria Emilia married The Earl of Yarmouth (this being the courtesy style of the son and heir of) the 2nd Marquess of Hertford. They had three children: It is said that when King George III was insane, he announced that he was going to take Lady Yarmouth as his mistress. Despite her wealth, the Seymour-Conway family never accepted Maria Emilia due to her illegitimate origin, and at the end this affected her marriage: after