For over seven centuries, it has been the chair on which history is made. Today, it will be so again.Made of oak, and with a lion at each of its feet, this high-backed seat of majesty, commissioned by King Edward I in 1296, is the most ancient artefact involved in 's Coronation: Chair.King Edward's (or Saint Edward's) Chair, to give it its correct name (it was named in honour of the 11th century monarch Edward the Confessor), is the oldest piece of furniture in the United Kingdom still used for its original purpose.
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