Originally Posted by
Tiger_mate
Apparently the 'Kings Crown' / 'Queens Crown' is not as clear cut as is generally believed, and is born of coincidental timing with Queenies Coronation. In short, one way or another we are eventually in for a gentleman monarchy, unless of cause the PC world demands sexual equality and Anne gets it, which in itself is quite possible, but a man in charge does not mean that the crown must change. As has already been mentioned, we have a Tudor Crown, not a Queens Crown.
I think I’m right in saying that the crown design which changed with the change of monarch in 1952 was not as a result of a female replacing a male monarch. It was merely a convenient and natural time to change.
St Edward’s Crown (the so-called Queen’s crown) had been used by all monarchs from the restoration of Charles II. The change only came when Victoria adopted the title Empress of India in the mid-nineteenth century, and it was thought that the Tudor crown (the So-called King’ crown) displayed a more imperial appearance. With the independence of India in 1947, and the loss of this title the use of an ‘imperial’ crown was no longer appropriate. The natural time to change was with the death of George VI when all the royal cyphers, symbols etc were changing from GRVI to ERII.