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Regalia

Regalia, ensigns of royalty which are displayed or used at coronations, such as crowns, sceptres, orbs, swords of state, the ampulla, and spurs. The regalia of England are kept in the Jewel Room of the Tower of London, those of Scotland in the Crown Room of Edinburgh Castle. The term originally meant the prerogatives of the sovereign, being the plural of the Latin regale, "a royal right," also called jus regale. These include in Great Britain and Ireland the prerogatives of the administration of justice, of making war and concluding peace, of the right to unowned goods, of taxation, of minting, and of supremacy in affairs ecclesiastical.