Cap (crown)

{{Short description|Cap which fills the inner space of a modern crown}}{{More citations needed|date=May 2024}}

File:Lord True (Cap of Maintenance) 2023.jpg at the State Opening of Parliament]]

The cap of a crown is the cap which fills the inner space of a modern crown. While ancient crowns contained no cap, from mediaeval times it became traditional to fill the circlet with a cap of velvet or other such cloth, with a base of ermine.{{Cite book |last=Norris |first=Herbert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xiqahsJPHSgC |title=Medieval Costume and Fashion |date=1 January 1999 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=978-0-486-40486-8 |page=177 |language=en}}