Coronation of Charles II in Scotland (1651)

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1. 1651Scone Palace, Perthshire · PerthshireBefore the coronation began, Charles II formally signed the National Covenant and the Solemn League and Covenant at Scone Palace, pledging to uphold the presbyterian church in Scotland and to impose presbyterianism in England and Ireland, in exchange for the military support and political legitimacy granted by the Scottish Covenanters — the political precondition for his coronation.
2. 1651Scone Palace, Perthshire · PerthshireThe Marquess of Argyll presided over the coronation, placing the crown on Charles II's head and using the Stone of Destiny and other traditional symbols of Scottish kingship to complete the formal crowning. It was the last coronation of a native monarch in Scottish history and the last British royal coronation held outside England to date, of great symbolic and historical significance.
3. 1651Scotland, border region · ScotlandAfter the coronation Charles II nominally held the lawful authority of the Kingdom of Scotland, though his actual military actions were strictly constrained by the Covenanters. As Cromwell's Scottish campaign advanced, Charles II led a Scottish army of about 16,000 south into England in August 1651, hoping English royalists would rise, only to suffer annihilation at Worcester.