Crown (headgear)The Imperial State Crown of Great Britain, Tower of London. This image of the crown was taken prior to the 1953 coronation, when the crown was modified for Queen Elizabeth IIA crown is the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, victory, triumph, honour, and glory, as well as immortality, righteousness, and resurrection. Numerous crowns of various forms were used in Antiquity, such as the White crown, Red Crown, combined Pschent crown and blue crown of Pharaonic Egypt. The Spanish Crown Jewels were destroyed in a major fire in the eighteenth century while the Irish Crown Jewels (actually merely the Sovereign's insignia of the Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick) were stolen from Dublin Castle in 1907. Commonly, rare and precious materials are incorporated into the crown, but that is only essential for the notion of crown jewels.