Buckingham Palace creates Twitter hashtags with motif of 17th century crown to sit on king’s head during May ceremony
Buckingham Palace has revealed an official emoji to celebrate the coronation. The colourful cartoon motif depicts the 17th-century gold jewelled St Edward’s crown with purple velvet cap – the regalia which will be used to crown the king on 6 May.It is the first emoji created for a British coronation, as the last crowning in Britain, Elizabeth II’s 70 years ago, predated the internet, social media and mobile phones.
The palace said the image marking the weekend of coronation festivities would appear on Twitter from 10 April when the hashtags Coronation, CoronationConcert, CoronationWeekend and CoronationBigLunch would be used. The royal family’s platinum jubilee emoji was a crown-wearing corgi called PJ. The cartoon image of the cheerful dog – the late Queen’s favourite dog breed – appeared on the monarchy’s official Twitter account, with the message: “Meet PJ the corgi, our Jubilee emoji!” Sporting a crown of purple and platinum, the colours of the jubilee, PJ, with his tongue sticking out, appeared automatically on Twitter when users included jubilee hashtags.
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