In some things it differed from ordinary coronations.

The representatives of the people attended the ceremony in a body, and were sumptuously feasted in the Exchequer Chamber.

Mary, being not merely Queen Consort, but also Queen Regnant, was inaugurated in all things like a King, was girt with the sword, lifted up into the throne, and presented with the Bible, the spurs, and the orb.

Of the temporal grandees of the realm, and of their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.

None could be surprised that the Whig aristocracy should swell the triumph of Whig principles.
But the Jacobites saw, with concern, that many Lords who had voted for a Regency bore a conspicuous part in the ceremonial.