throne room
Monarch's reception chamber
A throne room is the formal chamber in a palace or castle where a monarch sits enthroned to receive visitors, hold audiences, and conduct state ceremonies.
The term sometimes appears as a joking euphemism for bathroom: I'll be in the throne room.
Sovereign's ornamental headpiece
- scepterCeremonial staff of sovereignty
- orbLuminous celestial body
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
- robesLong loose outer garments
monarch · king · queen · sovereign · majesty · courtiers · nobles · attendants
Raised speaker's platform
- canopyOverhead protective covering
- baldachinOrnate canopy over altar
- tapestriesWoven pictorial fabric art
- columnsUpright structural shafts
chandeliers · stained glass · vaulted ceiling · marble · gilded · ornate · antechamber · gallery
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
- processionFormal moving line
- fanfareCeremonial brass announcement
ritual · homage · fealty · allegiance · oath · herald · trumpets · ceremony
crown
Sovereign's ornamental headpiece
- scepterCeremonial staff of sovereignty
- orbLuminous celestial body
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
robes · monarch · king · queen · sovereign · majesty · courtiers · nobles · attendants · guards
dais
Raised speaker's platform
- canopyOverhead protective covering
- baldachinOrnate canopy over altar
- tapestriesWoven pictorial fabric art
columns · chandeliers · stained glass · vaulted ceiling · marble · gilded · ornate · antechamber · gallery · great hall
coronation
Ceremony installing a sovereign
- investitureCeremony conferring rank
- pageantryElaborate ceremonial display
- processionFormal moving line
fanfare · ritual · homage · fealty · allegiance · oath · herald · trumpets · ceremony · anointment
- castlekeep, moat, drawbridge, battlements, dungeon
- Palacesroyal palace, Versailles, Buckingham Palace, imperial palace, Windsor Castle
- princely courtscourtiers, royal advisors, nobles, ladies-in-waiting, chamberlain
- Royal Courtscaliph, French court, courtier, vizier, courtiers
- Royal Palacecoronation, monarch, crown jewels, scepter, orb
- Dolmabahce Palaceharem, chandeliers, clock tower, gilded ceilings, marble columns
throne roomservants' quarters
Housing for domestic employees
dungeon · scullery · kitchen · pantry · laundry room
throne roomdungeon
Subterranean prison chamber
prison cell · slave quarters · servants' quarters · hovel · oubliette
throne roompublic square
Open urban gathering place
marketplace · town square · common room · village green · tavern
room, rooms, roomy, throne, dethrone, thrones, roomer, roomful, enthronement