The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-19
CONTRAST BETWEEN TWOCORONAT|ONS Edwards Browning Caused
 Tense Anxiety KING WAS VERY ILL King George, However, Is Young and Robust and England Anticipates
 Long and Prosperous
 Reign for Him
KING WAS VERY ILL

London, June 1S.-Betwen thee oro- Peacemaker," and that of his son
 George the Fifth, who, probably will be
 known to history as The Sailor King
 is wide contrast.
 Edwards coronation was attended with many misgivings and fears. On account of the serious operation
 which the King had recently under
 gone. and which necessitated the post
 ponement of the crowning, and the ap- prelension lest his majesty should not be able to endure the difficult ordeal of a state ceremonial lasting nearly four hours, with the strain of l it's attendant functions, the atmos- I phere of the first occasion was charged with extreme nervous tension. | Then the pagentry and feudal rites of l the most ancient and splendid ritual preserved by any European dynasty coming down as it does through the
 mists of nearly a thousand years from
 the time of the first Edward-had the glamor of extreme novelty in the eyes of the British people. More than half
 a century has passed since the coro-
 nation of Queen Victoria. Very few
 persons survived who had participated
 in that ceremony and who. would ap-
 pear again in any role at the crown ing of her son.
 Tho persons of the drama who will
 support the new King and Queen next
 Thursday, are largely the same. The venerable Dean of Westminster, whose l. 1nra
 the last coronation, Is gone No one
 who was In Westminster Abbey on
 that occasion can forget the scene when the aged prelate knelt before his monarch and was unable to rise
 until the King bent down to help
 him. The Duke of Devonshire typi-
 cal English nobleman of the old school | is succeeded by his son. Sir Henry Campbell Zimmerman is dead and also
 the stern old Duke of Cambridge
 brother of the former King.
 Three chairs stood below the throne
 on that day, their occupants the Duke of Connaught, the Duke of Cambridge
 and the present King, then Prince of Wales On Thursday there will be 1 two, occupied as before by the Duke of Connaught and the young Prince of Wales, who will wear his uniform of playing the same parts again. Rose bery, Roberts, Kitchener and Balfour will be conspicuous among them. The Earl Marshal, Duke of Norfolk, has
 the rare distinction of arranging the
 ceremonies of two coronations. One of the most familiar and popular fig | IT Iiel, 1T.
 known as the head of the foremost
 Catholic family of England.
 The four knights of the garter who
 carried the canopy for the Kings
 amounting in 1902 were Cadogan, Rose
 bery, Derby and Spencer The two first officate again with Lord Crewe
 and the Earl of Minto. Four duchesses will perform the same office for the Queen, the Duchesses of Hamilton, Mon
 trose Portland and Sutherland The Duke of Marlborough will carry St. Ed wards crown in the procession as he did before.
 One picturesque feature of the coro-
 nations of earlier Kings has been abandoned. The Barons of the Cinque Poarts established their claim to the right to bear a canopy over the Kings head, and afterwards to divide it among
 themselves as a souvenir At the coro-
 nation of William " they performed
 .his task so clumsily, not having had
 an opportunity to rehearse it, that they now have to be satisfied with seats of honor in the Abbey.
 For the first time the principal col
 ones of the empire will be repre-
 sented by their standard borne in tho royal procession. Several standards figured at the coronation of King Ed ward, the royal standard, carried by the
 Marquis of Landsdowne; the standard of union. by the Duke of Yelling ton; the standard of England by Frank S. Dymoke; the standard of Scotland, by the hereditary standard bearer. Lieut.. Col. Henry Scrymgeour- We'd derburn; the standard of Wales, by Lord Mostyn, and the standard of Ire land by the O'Conor Don. The same personages bear these standards Thurs day. There will be seen also the stand ards of the Empire of India, the Do- mnion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia. the Dominion of New Zea- land, and the Union of South Africa, carried respectfully by Lord Curzon, the Eari of Aberdeen, Lord Northcote, Lord
 Plunket and the Earl of Selborne, each
 of whom has been at the head of the dominion he will represent.
 Only the American diplomats and few colonals will appear in the pageant of Westminster Abbey without uniforms or robes of office. The men will wear evening dress with knee brooches. Am
 bassador Whitelaw Reid and Mrs. Reid are the only Americans to be present who attended the coronation of Edward VII. Mr Reid was then the special Am
 bassador from the United States, an of
 flee which MT. John Hayes Hammond holds for this coronation. Mrs Hammond will attend with him.
 The other Americans present officially will be the secretary of embassy, William Phillips and Mrs. Philips; the naval at tache Commander Simpson and Mrs.
 Simpson; the military attache, Major Slocum and Mrs. Socum, and MT. Ham uond's aides, General Greeley and Ad- miral Vreeland. Hundreds of prominent | Americans have attempted to secure ad- mission to the abbey but none were sue cessful The Presidents brother, Charles | P. Taft and Mrs. Taft, are the only Americans not holding official positions who have been given seats, This was
 done by the command of the King, on suggestion from Ambassador Bryce. l "A Peeress" writing in the Times. gives a most vivid impression of the last cor l onation, which also describes some lea | lures of the next. Her recollect'ohs dEe l largely of the general magnlflcehce anu | grandeur of the scene and of the won derful jewels worn by Queen AleXandra,
 and by the duchesses, notably some ones Of the American contingent, the Duchess of Roxburge. the late Consuelo Duchess | nf Ian ta, arL fl,o I11nhpGS