The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-06-20
WILL BE CORONATION OF tbs
WEEK THAN THOSE OF FORM
Err ENGLISH MoNARcHS.
Nearly All Pe7sonaees Who Held
Positions of Honor at King Ed
ward VIII Hold Them Again
Thursday.

Re known to history as THE Sailor
ing" is wide contrast
Edwards coronation was atteaded
wish many misglyings and fears. On
account Of the senons operation
which the King had recently under
gu1e. and which necessitated the
postpoaement OF the crowning, and
he apprehension lest His Majesty
should not be able II endure the
difficult ordeal OF u state ceremonial
lasting nearly four hours, with the
strain Of It's ate. lam flu. tons, the
atnoSr.C re q tho FIRST occasion was
harsel with extreme nervous ten
sion Thrn he pageatry and feudal
rites cf the NEST ancient and SPLEEN
lid ritual preserved by any European
down as it does
th.c2gl the mists OF nearly a thou
sand years from the time Of the first
Idwagd-1ad the g,amor OF extreme
novelty in ,la eyes OF the British
ceolle, Mere than half century
has x: lsed since TIE coconatlcnr OF
Queen Victoria. Very few persons
ayiyed who had participated il thai
3creac ny and VIC would appear again
n any role at the browning Of her
On.
Tie persons OF the drama who will
support the new king ana Queen
leXt Thursday are largely the same
The venerable Dean OF Westminster,
yhCs weakness lent touch OF pathGs
o the last coronation, is gone No
)nc who was in Westminster Abbey
IN sthat occasion can forget the scene
When the aged prelate kneit before
his monarch and was unable to rise
until the King bent down to help him.
The luke sof DevorsAie, a ,ypicai
english noblenan OF the old school
succeeded by his son. Sir Henry
'ampbell Bannermah is dead ard
ilso the stern old Duke of Cambridge.
brother Of the former King
Three chairs stood below the
hrone on that laY. their occupants
lie Duke of CornaUght. the Duke OF
iambidge and the present King
hen Prince OF Wales On Thursday
here viii be two. occupied as before
" the Duke e Connausht aud tn
Dung rince 81 Y ales who will we
lis uniform CT naval cadet. But
many great hcTes of the last coro-
istOn will be seen playing the sarce
PARTS again Posbery, Roberts
Kitchener and Faitour will be coz
picuous among them, The Earl Mar
ihal, Duke OF Norfolk, has the rare
distinction of arranging the cere-
monies OF two coronations. One OF
he most familiar and popular figures
n English life, the Duke is best
inown as tn head of the foremost
atholic family in England
The four Knights Of the Garter
Who carried tn canopy for the Kings
mounting in 1902 were Cadogan,
tosbery, Derby and Spencer. The
wo first officiate again with Lord
reeve and the Earl of Mimic. -Four
iuchcsses will perform the same OF.
ice for The queen, the Duchesscs of
Hamilton, Montroa2. Portland and
sutherland. The Duke of Marlbor-
ough will carry St. Edwards crown
n he procession as he did before.
One picturesque feaure OF the coro-
nations Of earlier kings has been
abandoned The Barons of the Gin.
Iue Ports establishd their claim to
III right to bear a canopy over the
iing's head. and aiterward to divide
it among themselves as a souvenir
Vt the coronation CT William " they
t'l-I0rmed this task so clumsily, not
having had an opportunity to re
learse it, that they low have to be
satisfied with SEATS Of honor in the
Abbey.
Fer the frs time the principal col
2nies of the Empire will be repre-
Sentcd by their standards borne II
the royal procession Several stan
dards figured at HE coronation o.
King Edward tie royal standard. car
ried by Ehe Marquis of Lansdownel
| the sttDdard OF the union, by thr
Duke CT Wellington the standard o
n2g'aAd, by Frank ). Dymoke; thu
standad CT Scotland, by the heredi
tary standard bearer, 1t. Col Henr.
scrymge Weddcrburn; the stan
laTd of Wales, by Lord Mostyn ant
the standard Of Ireland by the OCon
or Don. Tle same percentages bea
these standards Thursday. THEFT
VIII lie seen also the standards OF thu
Empire OF India the Dominion o
Ca1ada, the Commonwealth of Aus
tralia, the Dominion of New Zealan,
and the Union OF South Africa, cal
ried espectively by Lord Curzon, tn