Like St Edward’s Crown, the Imperial State Crown is extremely heavy and it’s adorned with a number of gem stones.

The Queen as soon as mentioned of the Imperial State Crown in a documentary: “You possibly can’t look all the way down to learn the speech, you need to take the speech up, as a result of when you did, your neck would break, it will fall off.

“So there are some disadvantages to crowns, however in any other case they’re fairly vital issues.”

The Imperial State Crown boasts 2,868 diamonds, 269 pearls, 17 sapphires, 11 emeralds and 4 rubies.