Crowning Disasters

As a member of the Queen s Bodyguard of the Yeoman of the Guard Extraordinary (Beefeater) Geoffrey Abbott is well qualified to write books on strange happenings at regal events. The topics covered in this fascinating book range from the hilarious to the unlikely and in some cases quite macabre. Contents include: Things that went wrong at coronations; OMENS AND AUGURIES when disasters occurred during a monarch's reign, FEASTS AND AFFRAYS coronation banquets which frequently ended in chaos, riots and looting; table manners of the day; royal menus; Coronation robes and their ultimate fate - sold; given to Mme Tussaud's; used in plays; SLEAZE FOR SYCOPHANTS perks for parasites, favours for flatterers, titles for toadies; PALACE PASTIMES flirting and wooing, masques and mistresses, dice-playing, jesters, and other right royal entertainments; ROYAL ODDITIES regal pretenders and their fate; the English queen tried for witchcraft; coronation medals; duties of the Yeomen of the Guard; ; Royal letters; attempted assassinations; Napoleon Bonaparte once a London Special Constable!Abbott, Geoffrey is the author of 'Crowning Disasters' with ISBN 9781861631329 and ISBN 1861631324.