She would not be the first royal lady of England who had worn it.

And I asked Elfric to persuade her to do so, for Emma's great failing was love of queenship.
"If I know aught of our queen," he said, "she wants to ride in state." "She does," I answered.

"I think, father, that we have a troublous journey before us.

She will not believe but that she may ride as ever through the land." "You plan and I will argue," the good man said, being ever light hearted.
So he went to the queen and spoke long with her, but she would in no wise ride out of London but as a queen, even as she had told me more than once.

There was nothing against that but that word might go to the Danish leaders that she was leaving the city.