Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-14
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Written for The Evening Star by Marshall Lord.
LONDON, June /. 1902.
The cablegrams sent out from this town
just now may make you think that the af-
fair in Westminster Abbey on June % is
what all the world and his wife has been
hurrying into London for to see. But really
except for half-mile royal jaunt in public
across Green Park, from buckingham Pal
ace to Westminster Abbey at 1880 a. m.
and then home again some two and a half
hours later. tired and hot and hungry-ex-
cept also for sCme booming of cannon when
the kings crown is put on-there will not
be much doing in London on the great day
outside of the wholly private ceremony in
the abbey.
That night things may be expected to
warm up a little, and we shall doubtless
discover whether the new verb Ito maffick'
has come into the English language to
stay. or whether occasion for it died out
when the first wild burst of joy at the relief
of Ladysmith and of Mafeking settled down
into dull apathy toward the progress of the
war in South Africa AIRY and 'Arriet
should be expected to break loose on coro-
nation night. to deluge everyone with con-
fetti and to tickle each others faces with
peacock feathers, but the chances are that
a large proportion of the extra million and
a half or two who are to be packed into
London on that night will feel as if they
hadn't their moneys worth at the end of
the actual coronation day.
The Seven-Mile Royal Progress"
1t is to relieve any such feeling that the
king and queen are going TO make pro
gress'' of seven miles through the city on
the day after the coronation-and that is
what the worlds "a waiting for to see"
The king and queen will wear their crowns
and robes of state and will travel in what
is perhaps the most gorgeous coach now in
actual use anywhere in the world. Heralds
and titled supporters and troops from all
quarters of the globe will help to make the
royal progress as brilliant an affair as
the procession at the time of the late
queens jubilee.
1t is lucky thing for the king. and more
especially for the queen, that the royal
progress does not have to be made IN the
same giided chariot that will take them
from the palace to the abbey. The journey
of June ~ is TO be made in a coach of more
recent vintage, with springs that will not
cause the unhappy occupants to think they
are crossing the English channel on bad
day. The long. slow journey will be hard
enough at best, for delicate, sensitive
Queen Alexandra. and i. .uld have been
a physical impossiblity ~ her to make it
in the vehicle 10 be used in the short pro-
cession of the day before, as she has
tendency to SeaSlckneSS-
By the Lord Mayors Leave.
Perhaps the most interesting point in the
journey will be the ina ginary line at the
lower end of the Strand, marking the boun-
DIARIES of the proud little patch in
the heart of the metropolis which is en-
titled to call itself the city of London and
which has the lord mayor of London all to
Itself. Even Edward VII, King of Great
Britain and ireland. Defender of the Faith
Emperor of India. and all the rest of it,
may not enter the city without the lord
mayors COnSe Mt.
As the route of the progress lies partly
through the city, herald in wonderful raj
ment Will ride ahead of the king to the
boundary line at Temple Bar and after a
quaint O-Goes-There'' bust
ness, blowing Of trumpets, and all that sort
of thing-will politely ask the lord mayor
who VIII be in waiting 10 guard the city's
right if the king may please enter the city
1t Is reasonably safe to say that the lord
mayor VIII graciously consent. Just what
would happen if he didn't is something that
seems never TO have suggested itself to any
body.
Wherever there is an open space along