Considering that Queen Caroline was the first Queen from the Hanoverian dynasty to be crowned i assumed they would have used the crown used by Mary II and Anne to underline the continuation in the succession. That is why i was surprised to read that Charlotte may have opted for a crown from Germany.
Unfortunately, the link below will probably not actually clarify very much but I include it out of curiosity.
I have been posting modern information about jewellery worn, according to researchers' studies of records and reports by some people present at events, which were not always clear in the way researchers would want to find.
I have not yet read the following in full but believe it records what had been traditional practice up to the Coronation of George III and Charlotte.
So it says, at pages 83/4, that Charlotte wore the Queen's Circlet to the Coronation, was crowned with the Queen's Crown , and departed wearing the Queen's rich Crown (ie State Crown). These three would be the Mary of Modena jewels.
But the modern day authors are certainly not clearly in agreement.
A FAITHFUL ACCOUNT OF PROCESSIONS AND CEREMONIES OBSERVED IN THE CORONATION OF THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND: EXEMPLIFIED IN THAT OF THEIR LATE MOST SACRED MAJESTIES KING GEORGE THE THIRD, AND QUEEN CHARLOTTE: WITH ALL THE OTHER INTERESTING PROCEEDINGS CONNECTED WITH THAT MAGNIFICENT FESTIVAL.
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