From The Crown Jewels 1998, some time after 1066:
“The placing of the crown on the king’s head in any religious ceremony at which the Archbishop of Canterbuy officiated was also regarded as his inalienable privilege as Primate. Later, in 1121, it so happened that during the ceremony of his marriage to Adelisa Henry I was sitting on his throne in his chapel waiting for the ceremony of her Coronation as Queen to begin, wearing his crown on his head. Archbishop Radulph of Canterbury, on seeing the King with a crown which he had not himself placed on his head, left the altar in his mitre and stole in order to protest at such a flagrant disregard of his privilege. As he came up to Henry, the King respectfully rose, and in answer to Radulph’s question, who had put the crown on his head, looked down and muttered that he could not remember, since the matter had not been to him of much importance. Radulph thereupon put up his hands and took the crown off the King’s head, undoing the buckle of the strap which held it under his chin. “
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