Sentence examples for coronation gift from inspiring English sources

In 1953 the President and people of Brazil presented Elizabeth II with the coronation gift of a necklace and matching pendant earrings of aquamarines and diamonds.

In 2010 ITV began selling Coronation Street merchandise featuring Ken, including gift wrap and novelty congratulations cards.

Of course, Girls and Looking form part of what is known in my lounge as "Mad Monday" on account of the televisual gift of two doses of Coronation Street and one EastEnders.

ITV director of television Kevin Lygo said: "Tony Warren was a charming man who gave ITV and the nation the greatest gift imaginable when he created Coronation Street, an idea that continues to entertain millions on a regular basis.

One shows a miniature of Napoleon in his coronation robes above the initial "N," supposedly a gift by the French emperor to a Polish aristocrat.

To his credit, Curzon did try to persuade the Westminster government to reduce the salt tax, as a gift to India in the year of the Coronation Durbar, but, not surprisingly, he failed.

Pope Pius VII took a gift of a micromosaic-decorated clock to Napoleon's coronation in 1804.

Monarchy is a gift to telly, and has been ever since the televised coronation of 1953.

"A $30 million gift to a concert hall is not philanthropy, it is a Napoleonic coronation".

It was a gift by the people of Amsterdam to Queen Wilhelmina on the occasion of her coronation, in 1898.

Part of their cost was met from a gift of £500,000 from Sultan Ibrahim of Johor for the Silver Jubilee of the coronation King George V. Three of the guns were given an all-round (360°) traverse and subterranean magazines.