The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-06-21
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Associated Press Special
London june 20 Between tbe
coronation of Edward tac seventh.
Tic reatemakaG ANA that of hia
SON. George lhe Fdh who probably
eill De- known 90 history as The
sailor kHe s side contrast
Edwards coronation Was attend
"a sinh many miaF Ings AID fears
ON account of the serious operation
which the king had recently under
gone and which nccessitated the
postponemout of the browning ana
the apprehension lest Ills Majesty
should not be able 90 endure the DIFF
Ucuu ordeal ut state ceremonial
lasting nearly four hours. With the
strain of t- attendant functions, the
atmosphere cot the first occasion was
charged With extreme nervous ten
sion Then the pageantry and feudal
rites of the most ancient and spleu-
1id ritual preserved by any European
dynos'y coming down as does
Through tue mists of nearly a thous-
and years from the time of the first
/ Edward the glamor OF extreme
novelty In the eyes of the British
people More than half century
has passed since the coronation OF
Queen Victoria Very few persons
survived who had participated in
that ceremony and who would APP
pear again ina any role at the crown
ing Of her son
The persons OF the drama who will
support the new king and queen neXl
THURSDAY are largely the same The
venerable Dean of Westminster,
whose weakness lent touch OF path
os 30 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 Deyonshire, a typi-
cal English nobleman of the old
school, is succeeded by his son, Sir
Henry Campbell Bannerman is dead
and also the stern old Duke of Cam
! bridge, 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 two, occupied as before
by the Duke of Connaught and the
young Prince of Wales, who will
wear his uniform OF naval cadet
But many great figures of the last
coronation win be seen playing the
same parts again. Rosebery Roberts
Kitchener and Balfour will be con
spicuous among them. The Earl
Marshal. Duke Of Norfolk, has the
bare distinction Of arranging the
ceremonies OF two coronations, One
Of the most familiar and popular
figures in English life, the duke is
best known as the head of the fore
/ most Catholic family of England.
The four knights of the Garter
who carried the canopy for the
kings amounting in 1902 were Cado
gan, Rosebery Derby and Spencer
The two first officiate again Will
Lord Crewe and the Earl of Mimic
FDNT duGneSSeS Will perform INK
same office for the queen, the Ouch
esses of Hamilton, Montrose, Port
land and Sutherland The Duke o
Marlborough will carry st. Edwards
crown in the procession as he did be
fore
one picturesque feature of thu
coronations of earlier kings has beer
abandoned The barons of the Gin
que Ports established their claim t
the right to bear a canopy over thu
kings head, and afterward to divide
1t among themselves as souvenir
At the coronation Of William ~ the,
performed this task so clumsily, no
having had an opportunity to re
hearse IT,. that they now have to b.
satisfied with seats Of honor In tn
abbey
For the first time the principa
colonies Of the empire will be repre-
scented by their standards borne Il