The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-20

of the Georges spent $12, $50 coo at
his coronation, while the pres
ent car of Russia came to the
throne in a blaze of glory which
cost his country all of S25O0O,O0O The
festivities of June will probably amount,
all told, to ST. eco, but the share of Of
fetal England will not be over one eVenth
of this. And for this she will see such
a spectacle as is seldom enacted in the
prosaic days of modern times.
1t begins at 10 in the morning. AT
that hour the king and queen start from
Buckingham palace for the abbey. Wis
iting royalties with the Indian princes
and other picturesque figures will probab-
ly not attend them on this short drive,
but there will be no lack on that account
of the color and brilliancy which are to
mark the day The officials of the house
hold will furnish forth a cavaIcade like
one of Sir Walter SCOTS, while the mon
arch himself, in a great robe of crimson
velvet, trimmed and lined with ermlne,
will make this brief and compare lively
informal procession something to go far
to see.
For the first time he will wear the
state imperial crown, which was made in
1885, with jewels taken from the old crowns
and others furnished by command of
Queen Victoria. 1t contains in the center
of a diamond maltese cross the famous
ruby said to have been given to the
Black Prince by Don Pedro Of CASTLE,
and later worn in the helmet of Henry v.
at the battle of Agincourt For the rest,
the crown consists of diamonds pearls,
rubies, sapphires and emeralds, set in
solid gold with a crimson velvet cap
bordered with ermine and lined with
white silk.
At the western entrance to the Abbey
the eight cream colored horses will come
to STOP and the king and his queen
consort will alight, to be met by the spir-
itual and temporal princes of the land.
These great officials, archbishops and
pcblemen, will have been waiting in the
Jerusalem chamber to attend the monarch
While he is gowned for the ceremony to
follow. Edward will pass through two
lines of his MOBILES each of them bearing
some piece Of the regalia of the realm
the staff or the spurs, the sceptre or the
orb, the sword or the chalice-and then,
in the great vestibule, he will be invested
with the dalmatic. mantle and stole The
first is a long robe of ecclesiastical cut,
partly open at the sides, of heavy cloth
oT-gold. 1t is worn over the gold laced
coat of the king, reaching below the knee,
and is richly embroidered in colors with
the flowers which typify the three king
doms of England proper-the Tudor rose.
the thistle of Scotland and the sham
rock of Ireland, as we'll as the fleur-de- lis
which speaks of the days when English
monarchs still claimed sovereignty over
France. The mantle, similarly embroider-
ed hangs over this like a short cape. COW
ering the elbows The stole, of bullion en-
broidery, with the cross of st. George
worked at the ends, hangs over the
shoulders. Over all is thrown the long.
| heavy coronation robe of purple velvet
and the head of the mighty British en-
pire is ready to take his place in the pro
| cessian.
The Great Procession.
! Led by the king-at-arms and the her
| aids, announced by flourish of trumpet.
| which echoes and re-echoes back an(
forth under the vaulted roof, and me
| with the acclaims of the hundred:
| gathered there, the brilliant line begins it
march up the great nave to the choir
! Following the heralds come the preben
daries and the dean of the Abbey. then tn
officers Of the royal household and tht
greatest mobiles in the realm, bearing TIL
/ regalia. Queen Alexandra, attended b.
| the archbishop of York and preceded h
the princesses of the blood royal. walk
near the center of the line of scarlet an,
purple and white and gold. After he
come the high constables of Ireland an
Scotland, then the royal princes, and the
the king; The yeomen of the guard an
the gentlemen pensioners close the pro
cession.
Long before the arrival of the king a
the Abbey the vast stands of seats erecte
about the so-ealled ''theater," where tn
coronation rites are to be performed wi
[ have been filled by the foreign minister
and privileged guests. the privy councillor