The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-03
LEADING LONDON QUESTION IS
WILL KING EDWARD VII.
BE CRoWNED?"
LOOKS AS IF THE eYPsIEs
WOULD BE FOOLED
History Yields Many Interesting In
stances in Which omens Both for
Good and Evil Have Been Followed
by Events lndicated-Crowning of
Adhesion and Other Early Kings.
pecial Cable to The Globe.


1t certainly looks as if he would be
in spite of the predictions of gipsies
and other dealers in portents and
omens.
To say the least of it these crones
and freaks who have been prophecying
Tor the king are not at all agreed that
ne Will never be crowned for the
Wltch's cauldron seems to have dished
up two kinds of BROTH
There have been several predictions
TO the effect that King Edward would
never wear the crown but on the other
hand equally well-known seers have
announced otherwise.
For instance, the palmist Zoza fore
told that the coronation would be post
poned, but that the king would live
two years after he was crowned.
The best known and perhaps the
most scientific of all the astrologists,
Zadkiel, said among other favorable
things in regard to King Edwards
horoscope:
1.-The position of Saturn in square to
the moon will render him liable to sor-
rows and misfortunes, nor will he es-
cape severe losses of the nations pow
er, yet on the whole, may congratu-
late the country on this royal nativ-
ity"
The horoscope cast. by Zadkiel call
ed forth these predictions few years
later: -,
THE sun being in sextile to Mars
will strengthen the constitution, and
there is no doubt that the princes per-
sonal appearance will be that of a
Jupiter in Sagittarius person. Those
born under the sign of the horseman"
are, as. rule, great patrons of outdoor
sports.
There are more testimonials for ac-
cidents in this horoscope, but the ma
tivity is on the whole SC, strong that
there is every reason to believe that
the prince will enjoy fairly long life"
Predictions of Cheiro.
Cheiro predicted in June, 1901, as
follows, evidently mixing a mistake of
year and suggesting the aSsaSSin'S
instead of the surgeons knife:
1.-THE prediction l now make about
the new king is that the months of
May of June of this year there will be
an attempt made upon his life, and it
will be a close shave if he gets
through"
'Zoza" Kenilworth, a palmist, whose
name in private life is Walter Winston
Kenilworth, who read King Edwards
hand at Sandringham in December last,
told him he would die within two years.
Kenilworth also predicted that the
coronation would be postponed be-
cause of an accident or some untoward
event
The young soothsayer declared that
the browning of the king would take
place in Scorpio, which extends from
the last week in October to the third
week in November.
King Edward has had many lucky
escapes from death, the latest being
when he was on Shamrock II. when the
steel mast buckled on May %, 1901. 1t
hoU TO i0l1
Cheiro referred.
Having passed these dangers so far
It is possible that the king has now es-
capped the evil effects of the maleVolent
fates which oppose him.
OmenS have played an important
part in the coronations of English
kings Some of these have been ia
vorable and others the reverse, the cir
cumstances following often bearing
out the truth of the auguries.
The first Edward to sit upon the
English throne, King Edward the elder,
was the son of the great early Saxon
King Alfred, the thousandth anniver-
celebrated at Winchester, the crowning
place of the early English kings for
several years.
Thousand Years Ago.
Alfred was crowned in 9O2, lust a
the seventh Edward should assume the
scepter accepted under such troublous
circumstances by Alfred, but Slorified
so much by his reign
Alfred's grandson, Adhesion, was
crowned Kingston, in Surrey, which
took his name from the circumstance
The browning of Athelson took place
under suspicious circumstances, it being
the occasion for receiving the submits
sion of the Northumbrians, the Welsh
and the Scots. 1t was the popular be-
lief that the lady who became queen
on this occasion was a Shepherds
daughter and not legally wed to the
king. 1t was perhaps on this account
that his two brothers succeeded him.
The great Archbishop Dunstan had
lively time over the coronation of Ed
ward the Fair, son of King Edmund.
who seemed to be of the same opinion
as his predecessor in regard to the
propriety Of entertaining a certain
class of ladies at court. He indeed in
dicated the proclivfties of a certain
King George, who followed him on the
throne years yater. Soon firing of the
coronation banquet, Edward the Fair
retired to the company of the fair and
was found in the company of two la
dies who were trying to entangle him
into a marriage. AS this marriage
scheme was not to the taste of the
archbishop and mobiles of the court, the
king was promptly hauled back to the
banquet hall.
Archbishop Dunstan was destined to
see yet another king ascend the Eng
lish throne.
1t was on Whit Sunday. e73 that
himself, assisted by the archbishop of
York and all the bishops of England.
crowned King Edgar at Bath 1t was
the first coronation amounting to much
as a ceremonial, as it was made the
formal declaration Of the unitv of
kingdom. Never after did the Danes
in Britain have kings of their own,
and the two archbishops declared the
imperial dignity of King Edgar as
ruler over the Angles.
"A strange thing was that the same
Dunstan crowned yet another king.
Ethelred, known as the Unready and
did 1T at Kingston.
A curious coronation it was, too, for
the new king was ascending the throne
of his murdered brother.
Original Coronation Speech.
The coronation speech was one of
the most original on the records. #
read as follows:
Because thou hast aspired to the
crown by the the death of thy brother
whom thy mother hath murdered
therefore hear the word of the Lord
The sword shall not depart from thine
mousse put ShalI tur1ouSly rage all the
days of thy life, killing thy seed until
such time as thy kingdom shall be
given to a people whose customs and
language the nation thou governest
know not; neither shall thy sin, the sin
of thy mother and the sins Of those
men who were partakers of her coun-
sells and executors of her wicked de-
signs, be expatiated, but by long and
most severe vengeance"
After the building of King 1cdu,ora
the Confessor's abbey at Westminster
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