London, which has never looked gayer, spent lavishly to demonstrate that the Englishman's traditional reserve is the husk of ardent devotion to ...
Article : 1,249 wordsThe sun shone fitfully during their Majesties' progress to the Abbey, causing the golden coach to glitter and the horses' gold and crimson harness to gleam. But whether the sun shone or not, the warmth of their subjects' greeting did not wane. ...
Article : 1,341 wordsLeaders of the Empire with their King after the luncheon at Buckingham Palace at which messages of loyalty from oversea subjects were conveyed to his Majesty. This radiogram from London shows, from left: The Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr. Savage), the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr. Lyons), the Prime Minister of Great Britain (Mr. Baldwin), the King, the Prime Minister of Canada (Mr. Mackenzie King), and the Prime Minister of South Africa (General Hertzog). ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 84 wordsTheir Majesties' last act before retiring on Tuesday night was to pay homage to those who fell in the war. Late in the evening, the Royal car drew up ...
Article : 93 wordsWhile the Hon. Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell was waiting in Westminster Abbey to bean the Princess Royal's coronet, his fouryear-old daughter, Charmain, was fatally ...
Article : 146 wordsThe Palace post-office staff was tripled but it was snowed under with tens of thousands of messages from all parts of the world from all classes of people, not only ...
Article : 84 wordsDame Enid Lyons, in a statement to the Australian Associated Press on her impressions of the Abbey, said:— "It was a majestic ceremony, and I ...
Article : 679 wordsDirectly beneath the careful gaze of his mother and the wondering eyes of his daughters, and seated in front of Queen Elizabeth, who watched intently. George VI spoke and ...
Article : 210 wordsWhen the Duke of Gloucester entertained visiting members of Royal families and other distinguished people amid scenes of splendour at St. James's ...
Article : 174 wordsLondon, at an early hour this morning, presented an example of remarkable traffic and crowd organisation. From midnight the huge area stretching ...
Article : 539 wordsTh announcement of the list of persons in Canberra who will receive Coronation medals has caused much public criticism. Persons outside the Public Service complain ...
Article : 225 wordsThe King's Colour being carried by the colour party during the military review at Centennial Park yesterday. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 21 wordsMembers of the Australian and New Zealand contingents who halted at the rear of Westminster Abbey, awaiting the afternoon procession after the Coronation, were immediately ...
Article : 223 wordsMr. J. H. Mollison, the English airman, and Mr. Dick Merrill, the American, propose to fly across the Atlantic with films of the Coronation ceremony ...
Article : 138 wordsFifty senior officers of Scotland Yard searched the Abbey for three hours with scrupulous care. Radio officials spent yesterday afternoon and ...
Article : 92 wordsHis Excellency the Governor-General (Lord Gowrie) has received the following message from the King:—"It has given the Queen and myself much pleasure to receive your kind ...
Article : 58 words"The Times," in a leading article, says: "It is impossible for any man to bear the burden of Kingship unless fortified and inspired by the spiritual power conferred on him in the ...
Article : 300 wordsThe Governor (Lord Wakehurst), accompanied by Lady Wakehurst, arriving at St. Andrew's Cathedral yesterday morning for the Coronation Commemoration service at which the ritual of the King's enthronement was re-enacted. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 36 wordsWhile London was occupied with the pageant, people throughout the rest of the country were celebrating the Coionation in their own way. ...
Article : 102 wordsAll sections of the community, white and black, participated in the Coronation celebrations. Towns will be floodlit for a week. The Minister for Justice (General Smuts), ...
Article : 152 wordsThere were serious disturbances in Dublin when Civil guards broke up a parade of Republicans which had been organised to repudiate the Coronation of an English king as ...
Article : 126 wordsPart of the royal procession was successfully televised to-day, despite a falling light. People within 50 miles of London were able to listen to and see simultaneously a great ...
Article : 54 wordsHerr Hitler sent the following telegram to the King:— "May your Majesty be granted a long and happy reign for the welfare of Britain, ...
Article : 60 wordsThe executive committee of the Transport and General Workers' Union yesterday gave instructions against any extension of the Central London bus strike to other sections ...
Article : 41 wordsA cablegram was sent from Sydney yesterday to the High Commissioner (Mr. Bruce), asking that he should communicate to his Majesty the felicitations of the members of ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Thu 13 May 1937, Page 12
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