Westminster Abbey has been home to royal coronations since 1066 Catherine Santino is a Style Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She began contributing to PEOPLE in 2022 and joined the staff full time in 2024.

A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...

The royal funeral for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 19, 2022, was a public ceremony on a truly global scale. In the days before, long snaking queues of mourners waited to file past ...

Manhole covers were once a part of a town’s civic pride, with foundries and local authorities placing their stamp on the cast-iron covers. Covers were a reflection of the progress made through the ...

A “jewel-like tower” has become Westminster Abbey’s first new structural addition in 250 years. Designed by the abbey’s official surveyor, British architect Ptolemy Dean, the tower is tucked away in ...

Westminster Abbey has just unveiled major repairs to one of its core structures for the first time since Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953. The renovations concern the ceiling of the Abbey’s nave; ...

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“I don’t think most people realize that it’s really old. As a site of worship, it goes all the way back probably to the sixth or seventh century, at least,” Cohen tells AD. “When you go to Westminster ...

Westminster Abbey in London, England is a site for many royal events that date back nearly 1,000 years. All reigning monarchs since 1066 have had their coronations at Westminster Abbey. Even though it ...

Westminster Abbey in London is resplendent with stained-glass windows, many of which are deeply rooted in England’s rich history. There are, for instance, depictions of Sir Walter Raleigh and ...

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