Evening star., 1953-06-02
Queen Is Crowned;
All Britain Halls
7th Woman Ruler
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doubted queen" A cloudburst
drenched the jam-packed cap
ital at the moment of crowning
It rained steadily for 80 minutes
before the conservation service
ended. More than 1900 per-
sons were counted casualties in
the crush of crowds, with Is hurt
seriously enough to go to hoSpi-
tails.
Prince Sucks Thumb.
Prince Charles was brought to
the Abbey just before the Arch
bishop of Canterbury placed the
iewel-encrusted Crown of st. Ed
ward upon the head Of Britain's
seventh queen, symbolically con-
secrating her to God and to the
service of more than a half bill
lion. people in a quarter of the
earth.
Charles acted like any child
of 4. Sucking his thumb. he
gazed with awe upoh the spec
tacle centering about his blue
eyed young mother. So he could
see better, his softly weeping
grandmother, Queen Mother
Elizabeth, lifted him so his
chubby hands could grasp the
ledge of the royal gallery.
The boy destined to be king
saw the crown placed on his
mothers head at 1888 pm.
(7:33 am. EDT). Eight minutes
later he saw her solmenly mount
the gilded throne before the
altar, and he was startled by the
swelling roar of God hSave the
Queen" echoing through the
ancient abbey in the united voice
of $500 assembled dignitarieS.
Queen Slightly Nervous.
Elizabeth II Regina sat in SOL
emn splendor, the scepters of au-
thority in her hands. her head
bowed beneath the weight Of the
f1ve-pound crown, while outside
trumpets, bells and guns carried
the tidings.
At the end of the ceremony
she gave up st. Edwards crown
and took on the lighter imperial
crown for the procession:
The young Queen went through
the stately ceremony with great
poise and only the faintest out
ward trace of nervousness. But
when it was ever. she looked emo
tionally tatigued-almost as If
she might burst into tears after
the tiring ordeal. She had only
a brief rest before the after
Moons procession.
Queen Mother Elizabeth must
have recalled today the crowning
of her husband, for she wept
softly through part of the cere-
mony. Nearby. the ordinarily
V!vacious Princess Margaret, o.
year-old sister of the Queen, was
pensiVe as she watched the crown
being placed on the head of the
girl she has always fonly called
Lilibet.
The ritual was historic out
pouring of the richness OF ira
dition which has made England
great in the past and sustained
her in her modern trials. Eliz-
abeth was a picture of queenli-
ness. Just once, she shook her
head, as If to. test the fit OF the
crown. It rested Snugly, secure,
as if made for her.
"a Nations Represented.
Only momentarily, f1eetingly,
a shy smile fitted across her
serious young face. But the SOL
emnity of the occasion was awe
inspiring. Watching her every
move were the representatives
of IA nations. the members OF
80 other royal families.
Gen. George c. Marshall head
ed the official United States del
egation, and the Soviet Union
was represented by Ambassador
Jacob Malik.
The actual act of crowning
presided over by the archbishop,
DR.. Geoffrey Fisher, came at the
end of an hour-long ceremony
in the abbey.
The route from Buckingham
to the abbey was little more
than a mile. The smiling SOW
ereign, lovely in the crimson
velvet robe of state that covered
her elaborately embroidered
gown, nodded and raised her
hand continually to the wildly
enthusiastic spectators as the
great coach rumbled down the
mall at walking pace of three
miles an hour.
The Queen showed only slight
signs of nervousness. She smiled
and spoke to her husband as
tremendous deafening shouts
went up. The eight matched
Windsor grays pulling the coach
majestically toward the abbey
seemed unmoved by the clamor
around them.
Packed ThrOngs Roar.
A steady roar from the packed
throngs followed the gilded coach
through Trafalgar Square, down
Northumberland avenue and over
the Victoria embankment to the
Houses of Parliament and the
abbey. A great cheer went UP
as the Duke of Edinburgh handed
his wife from the coach and they
entered the abbey annex.
Within a few minutes the
Queens procession began wind
ing through the long nave Of the
abbey.
The prime ministers Of the
Commonwealth then filed in with
Sir Winston Churchill, his. heaC
solemenly bowed, first in line