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The King's Coronation Day
An Onlooker's Memories Of Edward VII.
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June 22 was the anniversary of the Coronation of his Majesty King George V. The occasion re- calls another Coronation fixed for June, still fresh Bullock's Brains ...... in memory, though it fell thirty years ago. But the grave illness of King Edward VII. supervened, and all the elaborate preparations had to be postponed, writes G. Cornwallis West in the "Daily Telegraph."
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The box itself was right over the altar, and commanded, a won- It was not until the end of Ascot derful view of the whole tradi- week in 1902-an event which the tionally interesting ceremony. King, ardent race-goers us he was, When it is remembered that over had failed to attend--that the pub-17,000 people had to be accommodat- lic woke up to the fact that some-ed by 11.30, it is not surprising that thing must be seriously wrong. In]we''were 'commanded to take our the Royal Enclosure it had been places at 9.30 a.m. The two hours'] Pig's 'Chitlings obvious that members of the Royal interval passed rapidly. The scene GENERAL NOTICES, Household had been strictly enjoin- before us was a pageant of indes- ed to make little of the King's fèribable splendour, and the mind illness; and they carried out their was occupied, while the eye was instructions well, as none of his dazzled, by identifying the innumer- friends, except one or two of the able notabilities from all parts of most intimate, had any idea that the world, as they entered, in their brilliant uniforms or robes, and took their allotted places.
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As the hour of 11.30 approached sucking Pigs, to order AUGUST, 1932, at the offices of that even he himself had expressed
we could hear the booming of the Suct, Best the Corporation, where Sharehold- the same belief.
Sympathy with the Royal invalid guns in Hyde Park and the cheers, by the fact that of the excited crowds, for never was! was accentuated caido" are now given daily (free and THE REGISTER OF SHARES for so many years, though taking a monarch more enthusiastically re- without obligation) at office, Metro
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10.30 to 1 ED from MONDAY, 26th July, to welfare, he had been allowed to Coronation. It was as if one and House Street, nstrations by sp- SATURDAY, 6th. August (both) take no practical part in Ita admin.all raised their voices in thanks! afternoons. frec pointment only, 280 to 4. Various models to suit the divergent forms and days inclusive), during which istration, and that all the excellent aspects of respective cases, Local ser period no transfer of Shares can diplomatic werk which he had vice. Address communications to be registered, "Ossicalde," G.P.O. Box No. 559.
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Queen Alexandra, looking lovely,{ "Out of Danger” Bulletin.
entered and passed to her seat;} The crowds outside Buckingham Shortly afterwards came the King, Crabs Palace gazing at the bulletins after and it seemed that an involuntary King Edward's operation can only sigh of relief went up as everyone Dab be compared with those of two realised his complete restoration to years ago, during the serious illness
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he advanced with a firm, step to may have criticised King Edward as Prince of Wales during the late the Chair of Recognition, amidst the Yellow
Westminster boys: Frogs 'eighties, there was no more popular cries of the
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Edwardus! Then the service began. Gudgeon time of his accession."
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The service was a long one, in As regards this event itself, dar apite of abbreviations on account of pike ing the spring it had been discuss the King's health, and no one could ed at every dinner-table in London fall to be impressed by the antiquity Pomfret, White Ridiculous stories were going round, of the rites. When the final act to the effect that, as there had not
came, of the Imperial Crown being been a Coronation for sixty years placed on the King's head, the no one, from the Earl Marshal (the trumpets sounded again, the bells Rock Fish Duke of Norfolk) down to the pealed out, the guns boomed from each Junior clerk of the College of the Tower, and from all parts of Heralds, had the romotest idea of the Abbey came the cry of homage, shark
Salinen the proper procedure. This was, of "God save the King!" course, absolute nonsense.
There followed a most pathetic Shrimps The ceremony of the Coronation incidant. The aged Archbishop, Snapper of the Kings of England goes back being the senior member of the many centuries, there has been but First Estate, knelt before the King Tench little alteration in those sacred to do homage; when he endeavoured Tites which consecrate the Sover to rise to kiss his Majesty's cheek eign. What marked the difference he appeared to faller, and it was between the Coronation of King only when the King himself kaned Edward and of Queen Victoria, forward to his assistance that, with after so long a lapse of time, was the additional aid of the Bishop of the advent of representatives from Winchester, he was able to rise borough, Montrose, Portland,
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all parts of the great Empire which was the King who made Sutherland. The Consort la crown- FIRST AT HOME! had been consolidated during the signal that the venerable prelate ed kneeling, and at the moment previous sixty years were should be falsted to a chair, where her coronation I dave a recollectio
During that period many social it is said, he indignantly denied that of hundreds of white-gidved farmia reforms had been enacted; demo- there was ay likelihood of his cracy had found its feet and was fainting and maintained that it was frmly planted; but the link between at his bead but his lega which the people and the Crown was
stronger than ever.
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