page_title: Procession
section_title: Change in government
hierarchical_section_title: Procession / Functions of processions / Change in government
caption_attribution_description: English: Medieval festival parade. Hand-painted, gold and silver Milanese tarot card, ca. 1428-1447. Currently at the Yale University Library.
context_page_description: A procession is an organized body of people walking in a formal or ceremonial manner.
context_section_description: The Reception of the Ambassadors From Siam at the Château de Fontainebleau was one such example, documented by Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1864. The signing of surrender by Japanese diplomats and soldiers aboard an American battle ship at the end of World War II involved a strictly codified procession on and off the ship.
   Processions play an important role in coronations, such as that of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in 1953, the Shah of Iran in 1967, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II of the Ashanti in 1999, and Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia in 2004.
caption: Royal procession, design from the 14th century.
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