Coronation of the British monarch either the first meeting of the parliament after a new monarch's accession (i.e. during the State Opening of Parliament) or at his or her coronation. The monarch additionally swears a separate oath to preserve Presbyterian church government in the Church of Scotland and this oath is taken before the coronation. Once the taking of the oath concludes, an ecclesiastic presents a Bible to the sovereign, saying "Here is Wisdom; This is the royal Law; These are the lively Oracles of God." The Bible used is a full King James Bible, including the Apocrypha. At Elizabeth II's coronation, the Bible was
The Beatles: The Authorised Biography that Davies provides a "fascinating essay" in the 2002 revised edition. Writing in "New Statesman" in 2012, Davies said he was hurt at the time by Lennon's dismissal of the book as "bullshit", and that he was still being asked to respond to Lennon's critique over 40 years later. Davies' official history remained the only authorised book about the Beatles' career until Harrison's 1980 autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", and McCartney's authorised biography, "Many Years from Now", written by Barry Miles and published in 1997. Miles, who says he regularly used "The Beatles" as a reference work for "Many Years from