Starting in 1640, the Portuguese monarchs stopped using crowns and there were no longer coronation cerimonies. Why was that? And were there any other similar approaches to coronation elsewhere in Europe?

by Couve_do_Lidl
TywinDeVillena

In the realms of what is now Spain, coronations had fallen out of fashion in the late 14th century. I explained that in this other answer:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/w4ut23/comment/ih6zb9s/