In the first coronation ceremony ever held for an English monarch, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar,_King_of_England" id="mwIg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edgar, King of England">Edgar the Peaceful</a> is crowned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of English monarchs">King of England</a>, having ruled since 959 AD.<sup about="#mwt37" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{"name":"bauer"},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-bauer-4"}}' id="cite_ref-bauer_4-0" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_11#cite_note-bauer-4" id="mwJA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwJQ">[4]</span></a></sup> His wife, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ælfthryth_(wife_of_Edgar)" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ælfthryth (wife of Edgar)">Ælfthryth</a>, is crowned queen, the first recorded coronation for a Queen of England.<sup about="#mwt41" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-5"}}' id="cite_ref-5" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_11#cite_note-5" id="mwJw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 5;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKA">[5]</span></a></sup>