THE ROYAL FAMILY.

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1936, Page 3

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

CORONATION = SEATS

Members of the Royal Family and those personally invited by the King or Queen Mary to attend the Coronation Service in Westminster Abbey on May 12 will have special groups of seats reserved for'them (says the "Daily Telegraph"). ■ The ■ groups will be - known as "boxes —the "King's Box," the "Queen's Box;" and the "Royal Box. They will not be walled in in any way, but separated from the main seating accommodation. i In the Royal Box the little Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose will sit with their mother, the Duchess of York, the Princess Royal and her two sons Viscount Lascelles and the Hon. Gerald Lascelles, the Duchess of GloucesterT and the Duchess of Kent. Other members of the Royal family will be with them. The largest of the enclosures will be the King's Box. It will accommodate those who have received his Majesty's personal invitation. Guests of Queen Mary at the Abbeywill be in the Queen's Box. Queen Mary herself is not likely to■ attend the Coronation. She has no part to perform in the ceremony, and, if she follows precedent, she will attend a religious service elsewhere. When King George V was crowned on June 22, 1911, Queen Alexandra attended a private service at Sandringham Church with her sister, the Empress Marie of Russia, and her daughter, Princess Victoria. Afterwards the three Royal ladies were present at an open-air service for the Dersingham villagers and the celebration dinner for the tenants and children which followed. '