COSTLY CEREMONY
The official return of £359,289 5s Id—such exactness in pence is almost poetic—as the expenses of the King’s Coronation makes it the most costly ceremony of the kind in Britain. For the coronation of Queen Victoria was well within the £70,000 limit set by Lord Melbourne, the actual cost be dm £69,421; while William IV.’s coronation bill was just over £42,000. That of George TV. was nearly £250,000, and so ranks next to King Edward’s, whose illness and postponement of the coronation must account for no small proportion of the bill of costs. All of these sums put together, however, fall far below the sum spent on the coronation of the present Czar of Russia. It cost £3JXXLPOQ.
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Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 11
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120COSTLY CEREMONY Evening Star, Issue 14036, 17 April 1909, Page 11
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