The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1887-06-18 00:00:00

PROGRAMME OF THE PROCESSION.

The following official details were sanctioned by
her Majesty on Monday,having been sent to Balmoral
for the purpose:
Half-an-hour is allowed for each procession of car-
riages to cover the distance between Buckinghan
Palace and Westminster Abbey, by way of Constitu-
tion-hill, Piccadilly, Regent-street, Pall-mall East,
Cockspur-street, Northumberland - avenue, Thames
Embankment, and Bridge-road. A quarter of an
hour will elapse between the departure of each corUge.
The first procession, which will start at 10.30,
will be composed of carriages drawn by bay horses,
and will set out from the Buckingham Palace
Hotel, driving into the processional highway at
Buckingham-gate. The first carriage will include the
Indian Princes who are the guests of the Queen, with
their large suites, and the Queen of Hawaii, with her
attendants in cloth of gold; while the rear carriages
will contain the following members of European
Royal families :—Princes Francis and Alexander of
Teck, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince
Albert and Princess Louise of Schleswig-Holstein,
Princess Alexandra of Hesse, Princesses Marie, Vic-
toria, and Alexandra of Edinburgh, Prince Victor of
of Hohenlohe, the Duke and Duchess of Teck, and
Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar. Besides these
there will be carriages containing the suites of the
foregoing.
On arriving at the Abbey this procession will be
received by the Vice-Chamberlain and officials of
the Lord Chamberlain's department, who will mar-
shal the party, according to order of precedence, and
conduct the several members to their seats in the
choir, Sir H. P. Ewart, K. 0.8., and Major Bigge,
C. 8., having charge.
At 10.45 another grand carriage procession will set
forth. This will consist of 15 carriages, each horsed
with four bays, with State trappings. This will start
from Buckingham Palace, where the Royal and illus-
trious persons forming it will have previously as-
sembled. Among them will be the King of Denmark,
the King of the Belgians, the King of Saxony, the
King Of the Hellenes, the Crown Prince of Austria,
the Crown Prince of Portugal, the Queen of the Bel-
gians, the Crown Prince of Greece, Prince George of
Greece, the Crown Princess of Austria, and the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg-S trelitz, with the aides-de- camp,
equerries, Court officials, and gentlemen in waiting to
each of the Royal personages.
On reaching the Abbey at a quarter past 11 o'clock,
these Royal and representative visitors will be received
by the Lord High Chamberlain's officials and con-
ducted to places within the altar rails or sacrariam,
16 being seated on each side.
There will then be an interval of half an boar,
during which the chief procession will be formed
ready to emerge to the public view through the grand
gates of Buckingham Palace, which have not been
used since the Prince Consort's death. The Queen's
procession will be a pageant worthy of the occasion.
It will consist of 11 carriages, the six preceding her
Majesty being State equipages, with bay and black
horses in gold-mounted harness, the animals having
their manes dressed with ribbons, and with a footman
in attendance on each side. As will be the case with
all the other carriages, the coach containing the
Queen will be open ; but should the weather not be
favourable a hood will be used as a protection. The
Queen's splendid carriage will be drawn by eight
cream-coloured ponies. The following is the official
detail of the Queen's procession, marshalled by the
Master of the Horse :

The first, second, third, fourth, and fifth carriages
will bear the great officers of State and ladies of the
Queen's bed chamber, among them being the Lord
Chamberlain, Lord Steward, Gold Stick in Waiting,
Sco.
The sixth carriage, which, with those that will
follow' will be horsed and caparisoned with more
splendour than those preceding, will contain Princess
Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Alfred of
Edinburgh.
Seventh Carriage.—Princess Sophia of Prussia,
Princess Irene of Hesse, Princess Victoria of Prussia,
and Princess Louis of Battenberg.
Eighth Carriage.—Princesses Maud, Victoria, and
Louis of Wales and the Grand Duchess Elizabeth of
Russia.

Ninth Carriage.—The Hereditary Princess of Saxe-
Meiningen, Princess William of Prussia, Duchess of
Albany, and Duchess of Connaught.
Tenth Carriage.—Princess Christian, Princess
Louise, Princess Beatrice, and the Duchess of Edin-
burgh.

Eleventh Carriage (the Queen's).—Crown Princess
of Germany, Princess of Wales, the Queen.
Betwean the tenth carriage and the Queen's equip-
age there will be kept a good space so as to allow
of the grand mounted guard of honour of Royal
Princes, who will ride in the following order, three
abreast:

Duke of Connaught Prince of Wales Duke of
Edinburgh
Prince Christian Crown Prince of Grand Duke
Germany of Hesse
The QUEEN'S Carriage.
Prince Henry of The Duke of Marquis of Lorne
Battenberg Cambridge
Grand Duke Serge Prince Albert Prince
of Russia 'Victor of Wales William of
Prussia
Prince Henry of Prince George of Hereditary Grand
Prussia Wales Duke of Hesse
Hereditary Prince Prince Christian Prince Louis
Saxe-Meiningen -Victor of of Battenberg
Schleswig-Holstein.
These will be followed by aides-de-camp and an
array of notables of the Household on horseback, in-.
eluding the Master of the Horse, the Silver Stick, a
field officer's escort of the Life Guards, and a detach-
ment of the native Indian cavalry. The Duke of
Cambridge will ride alongside of the Queen's carriage,
and the Headquarters Staff of the War Office, under
his command, will ride three abreast, immediately in
front of the first carriage in the Royal procession.
The order of procession is as follows: Life Guards,
advanced escort, aides-de-camp, equerries, three
abreast, the Headquarters Staff of the Army, carriages
with suites, Life Guards escort, carriages with Royal
Family, Princes riding in threes, the Queen, the
Duke of Cambridge, Lite Guards, field officer's escort,
two equerries, Field Officer of Brigade, and Silver
Stick, party of Life Guards, detachment of native
Indian cavalry, Life Guards, rear guard.
The Women of the Bedchamber, Maids of Honour,
the Controller of the Household, the Treasurer of the
Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, and all other
officers not previously mentioned in the procession,
will be in attendance at the Abbey at a quarter to
twelve o'clock, when the Queen arrives.
Her Majesty's approach will be announced by a
, fanfare of trumpets and by the appearance of the
1 Heralds, who will wear State robes. The Arch-
' bishop of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of
London, and the Dean of Westminster, in canonical

robes, will receive her Majesty, and will prece3e
the procession up the nave to the Sacrarium, the
Queen stopping under the lantern and ascending the
dais there erected.

The following is the order of the Abbey procession:
Heralds.
Ushers.

Controller of the Lord Chamberlain's Department.
Garter King at Arms.
Lord Steward Lori Chamberlain

Procession of Pi inces (three abreast, the two lines
nearest the Queen being composed of the Prince of
Wales, the Dukes of Connaught and Edinb,irgh, Prince
Christian, the Crown Prince of Germany, and the
Grand Duke of Hesse).
THE QUEEN.

Master of the Horse Mistress of the Robes
The Princesfea in the following order, two by two:
Crown Princess of Princess of Wales
Germany
Princess Christian Marchioness of Lorne
Princess Beatrice Duchess of Edinburgh
Princess William of Princess of Saxe-
Prussia Meiningen
Duchess of Connau2ht Duchess of Alban)
Princess Louise of Wales Princess Elizabeth of
Russia
Princess Maud of Wales Princess Victoria of Wales
Princess Victoria of Prussia Princess Louise of
Battenbere

trincess Sophia of Prussia Princess Irene of Hem
Princess Victoria of Schles- Prince Alfred of
wig-Holstein Edinburgh
The Women of the Bedchamber and the Ladies in
Waiting will close the procession, with the Captain's
of the Corps of Gentlemen•st-Arms and the Yeomen
of the Guard, whose corps will be posted at different
points in the Abbey.
All the members of the Royal Family will be seated
on the dais immediately outside the altar rails.
After the March by Handel, which will be played
during the procession up the Abbey, the service will
begin. The service itself is for the occasion according
to the form passed by Her Majesty in Council. At
its conclusion the Queen will leave the Abbey, the
same order of procession being observed as upon the
arrival, with the exception that her Majesty's will be
the first of the three processions to return to Bucking-
ham Palace, the two other processions, in which will
be her Majesty's guests, following. Guards of honour
will be mounted both at Buckingham Palace and at
Westminster Abbey and at special points along the
route, which will be lined by her Majesty's forces.
The following orders have been issued as to dress:
Full dress coat and trousers will be worn by gentle-
men of her Majesty's Household.
Ladies in morning dress, bonnets, and long high
dresses, without mantles.

Orders to be worn.
The day will be observed as a collar day.
This last reeulation insures that all military, naval,
Court, and State officials will wear the badges,
ribands, stars, and medals of their orders.
The official programme of the ceremonial states
that the music will be rendered by 300 selected voices
from the best choirs.
ROYAL JUBILEE GUESTS.

Among the illustrious guests for whom arrange-
ments have been made by the Lord Chamberlain are
the King of Denmark, the King of Saxony, the King
and Queen of the Belgians and Princess Clementine
and Prince Baudouin of Belgium, the King of the
Greeks and his eldest son, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg-
Gotha, the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meek-
lenburg-Strelitz, the Grand Duke of Hesse and the
Hereditary Prince and the Princesses Alice and Irene,
the Landgrave of Hesse, the German Crown Prince
and Prineess. Prince and Princess William of Prussia,
and Prince Henry and the Princesses Sophia and Mar-
garet, the Crown Prince of 'Austria, the Crown Prince of
Sweden, PrincE of Bavaria (either Louis or Leopold),
Don Antonio of Montpensier and the Infanta Eulalie,
the Duke and Duchess of Braganzr, the Grand Duke
and Grant Duchess Serge Alexandrovitch of Russia,
the Duke of Aoitic, the Hereditary Princeand Princess
of Saxe-Meiningen, Prince William of Wiirtemburg,
Prince Ludwig of Baden, Prince and Princess Philip
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince and Princess Hermann
of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince and Princess of
Leiningen, Prince Derawango of Siam, and Abu'n
Major Hisam of Persia.