There have been hardworking royals, and workshy ones. Their crowns aren’t any totally different.

Whereas the Saint Edward’s Crown is the centre piece of the Crown Jewels, the Imperial State Crown is the toughest working of the various items within the assortment and is presently adorning the Queen’s coffin in Westminster Corridor, the place she lies in state.

Saint Edward’s Crown is sacred and vital, however used solely by a monarch for a couple of minutes within the second they’re topped. In reality, it has solely carried out that perform for six monarchs for the reason that Restoration in 1660.

Those that do put on it at Westminster Abbey swap the unwieldy 4.9lb body for the much more manageable 2.3lb Imperial State Crown, which is worn for the monarch’s procession out