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
Tudor Vaughan destroyer Ehrensköld. On arrival in England on 6 May 1929, Vaughan was buried at the Church in the Wood, Hollington, East Sussex. In 1912 Tudor Vaugan's father Henry Vaughan and his sons and daughters added the name St Andrew to their surname, so that John Charles Tudor Vaughan became formally John Charles Tudor St Andrew-Vaughan. However, he continued to be known as Tudor Vaughan and official notices referred to him as John Charles Tudor Vaughan. Tudor Vaughan was appointed MVO in 1908 and CMG in the New Year Honours of 1918. He was knighted KCMG in the 1925 Birthday Honours.