GUESTS FOR CORONATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 34, 10 February 1937, Page 6

GUESTS FOR CORONATION.

A "S-ycar-nld former ca vjtli v officer will lie stage manager of the grcatest pageant i>f this generation, the coronation of King George VI. More onerous still is liis tasl< of picking tlit* j audience. Hy installing a gallery and crowd-1 ing the scats Westminster Al>t;cv can he made to hold between 7000 and SOOO persons. I'ntoldj thousands would like invitations; at least five times the number who can be admitted think I heir high positions or titles entitle them to be present. The stage manager occupies al place in English society from which lie is immune to retaliation from disappointed ticket-seekers. Few are in a position to snub the sixteenth Duke of Norfolk. Karl Marshal :»nd TTereditarv Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Premier Duke and Earl. Thosfc that are undoubtedly will get tickets, anyway. Already the Duke has given up residence at Arundel Castle. Sussex, his principal estate, to full-time work on the coronation. Associated with him are the officers of the College of Heralds, of which he is president, in a study of precedents. His offices occupy a house near Buckingham Palace. A ten-hour day will be the rule from now until the coronation. The Duke received his initiation into, ceremonial affairs last January, when he was in charge of King George's funeral.