Evening star., 1937-05-12
MILLIONS HONOR
COMMONER QUEEN
Elizabeth Is First Scottish
Ruler Crowned in Abbey
in 300 Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May ia smiling com.
moner shared with her royal HUSBAND
the homage of millions today for hel
coronation as Queen in Westminster
Abbey.
In the breath-taking splendor ot
the coronation scene, the girl who
was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. wa.
dedicated to the high position she
could scarcely have dreamed Of wher
she played with her brothers and
sisters on the Scotch moors.
No Scottish Queen had been crowned
in Westminster Abbey since the
coronation of Matilda, daughter OF
King Malcom III Of Scotland ano
wife Of King Stephen of England
800 years ago.
Queen Elizabeth was the first COM
moner to be Queen since Henry VIII
took his sixth and last wife, Kath-
crime Par, but Katherine was never
crowned
Will Be 81 August 1.
The Queen, daughter of the proud
family Of Bowes-Lyon, headed by her
father, the Earl Of Strathmore and
Knghorne, will be 81 years old August
4. She is inclined to plumpness, has
dark brown hair, bluish-gray eyes
with dark lashes and heavy, straight
eyebrows. She is five feet, five inches
tall
Queen Elizabeth's lips are lightly
roCged as a rule, her eyes shaded, her
vigorous, healthy skin whitened with
liquid powder.
The early life of "the Smiling
Duchess" as she came to be known
shortly after her marriage, was far re-
moved from the life of the court. She
was brought up at grim walled Glamis
pronounced Glarms) Castle that has
stood for nine centuries.
The ninth of 10 children, she led q
simple life of quiet evenings at home,
of poetry reading and Of long walks
In the country.
While peers and peeresses of the
realm and humble citizens alike paid
homage to her, she in turn paid hon.
age to her liege lord whom she wed IN
1928 when he was Duke of York with
scarcely more than a dim prospect Of
becoming King.
Three years before, however, an old
gypsy at Ascot had prophesied she
would be a queen and the mother Of
a great queen.
Married Deliberately.
AS a small girl her playmates called
her Princess Elizabeth" in their
games. Now she is Queen Elizabeth.
She married man, not impulsively
but deliberately, after he had asked
for her hand several times during his
shy but persistent courtship.
Her confident manner is credited
with having much to do with aiding
the King in overcoming the subdued
nature which was evident in his
earlier years when he was handi-
capped by a nervous stammering,
which made him uneasy in the pres
ence of people.
She has gained reputation as a
housewife from the economical con-
duct Of her household as Duchess OF
York when she supervised all details
of her home.
From the beginning she has been
a favorite of the Queen Mother and
on the occasion of King George Wis
accession to the throne, Queen Mary
said in her message to the people:
Il commend my dear daughter in
law, who will be his Queen. May she
receive the same unfailing affection
and trust which you have given me
for six-and-twenty years."
Five Duchesses in Entourage.
Today five duchesses, six daughters
Of the nobility, eight ladies in waiting
two dukes, an earl and the officials OF
her own household made up her bril-
liant encourage for the coronation.
She rose early to be garbed in her
gown of ivory satin, richly embroidered
in gold with 6-yard train Of roya,
purple, velvet bordered and lined with
ermine. In her dark hair Jewels flash.
ed and others cleaned on her white
throat
Six train bearers of noble birth were
assigned to carry her heavy velvet
train. which sparkled with gold en-
broidered flowers and her royal cipher
All six were young and pretty and
dressed in short -sleeved princess fro2nl