The day after King John's death, an event which the Nottinghamshire and the whole England were waiting occurred. Anaivere Plantagenet, the eldest daughter of Princess Anne, Countess of Brittany and Simon, Count of Brittany was going to be crowned Queen. A new reign, a new era was coming. People hoped that the new monarch would be kind and this new reign wouldn't be the reign which they continued to be starved.
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20 October 1216,... Nottingham Cathedral...
People all gathered in the Cathedral to attend the most anticipated event: the coronation of Crown Princess Anaivere Plantagenet.
In the early morning, Sylvia prepared her no-longer Crown Princess for the ceremony in the Cathedral's west hall. She dressed her princess in court gown, a formal braided up-do covered by a white veils which symbolised purity, and the traditional crimson Royal Robe.
"Just a moment later, and I will no longer call my little Anaivere as 'Your Highness...'"
The Crown Princess kindly smiled. Now it was the time she would handle the kingdom's responsibility on her hands, as her good uncle King Richard the First willed. She wasn't the little Anaivere whom King John once said that she couldn't be crowned as she was too naive and immature. Soon after, she would be Anaivere Plantagenet, Queen of England and Duchess of Aquitaine, whom Nottingham's citizens had been waiting for twenty years.
The Crown Princess, wearing the ceremony robes, walked through the great hall all the way on to the Altar. The orchestra was performing and all of the good citizens of Nottingham gathered here for the most memorable moment of their life. The Archbishop of Canterbury would be the one who led the ceremony within the help of the Bishop of Nottingham.
The Crown Princess came and stopped in front of the Coronation Chair and turned over to see all the audiences who came to attend her coronation. The Archbishop asked the audiences - most of them, peasants and commoners - politely:
"Sirs and madams, I here present unto you Queen Anaivere Plantagenet, your undoubted Queen: wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, are you willing to do the same?"
The audiences all cheered:
"God save our Queen!"
The crowning Queen smiled and curtseyed in reply. Then, she sat on the Coronation Chair to take the Coronation Oath, the vows of a monarch to his or her kingdom before he or she would be officially crowned.
"Madam, is Your Majesty willing to take the Oath?"
The queen-to-be Crown Princess Anaivere answered the Archbishop's questions, truthfully and severally.
"I am willing..."
"Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the Kingdom of England and Northern France, to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs?"
"I solemnly promise so to do..."
"Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements?"
"I will, by the Mercy of God..."
"Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the Kingdom of England the Catholic Christian Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Catholic Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them?"
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A Forgotten Legend: Anaivere the First
Historical FictionBy his mother's last will, King John's little niece, Princess Anaivere was made the heir apparent to the throne instead of his later own child. At first, he intended to use his niece as a puppet in order to strengthen his power and get rid of the th...
