A CORONATION STORY.
It was in Ceyloti (reports an exchange) that Mr. Wise, who has juefc returned to Sydney from a trip to Ceylon, heard the latest story current in connection with the Coronation festivities. It is related (with ev«ry confidence in its authenticity) of Prince Henry, the aeyen-year-old Bon of the King, whose ambition and foresight appear to be far beyond his years. Prince Honry was permitted to tafee part in a rehoarsaJL«»of the Coronation^ procession, and wua highly delighted with all the ceremonial. Afterwards, having boen guilty of some childish fuult, he was threatened by his royal sister with the punishment of exclusion from the real procession. "I don't care," retorted the baby prince: "you will all bo there and I wont. You an ill all bo blowti up by anarchists, and then I will bo King Ileui'y IX., and ha\c mno wivet.'' The little priuco's ambitious • were twice defeated, for ho was not absent from ths procession, nor did the anarchists fulfil hi(S of vL-hf>lm«Ja ftla.uch.taA-
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 13
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169A CORONATION STORY. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 77, 30 March 1912, Page 13
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