EXPENSIVE CORONATIONS.
It may be of interest to point out that the most expensive coronation on record, was that of the present Czar of Russia.
Upwards of £3,000.000 was spent by the Government alone, and fully another £1,000,000 by the public authorities of various Russian towns
The representatives of other powers vied with each other in lavish outlays and counting the sums spent by other persons, the coronation of Nicholas II cannot have cost much less than £5.000,000. The coronation of Czar Nicholas 1 was also a very extensive affair The then Duke of Devonshire was the British representive, and he spent fully £30,000 of his own money in connection with it. The coronation of George IV. was the most expensive in English annals, and this only cost £2,500,000 Of this amount £25,000 was expended on the coronation robe and £45,000 on the Crown.
The cost of the coronation of George 111. did not amount, to half that of George IV. The whole cost of the coronation of William IV 7 . amounted only to £30,000, and that of Victoria to £70.000.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1798, 2 September 1902, Page 7
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