The Pageant of June.

Hastings Standard, Issue 297, 14 April 1897, Page 4

The Pageant of June.

The celebration of the Queen's record reign will begin on Monday, -lime 21, when Iler Majesty, accompanied by a great suite, will make a semi-official entry into London, arriving at Buckingham palace early in the afternoon. On Tuesday there are to be t»vo processions. The lirst will consist of the colonial Premiers, the suites of the foreign princes, the great officers of State and the clergy. Accompanying the Queen in her procession will be the Princess of Wales, the Empress Frederick, and the Duchess of Ooburg, and all the Koyal ladies of the Queen's family and the ladies of the foreign Koyal families. Surrounding her Majesty's carriage on horseback, will be the Prince of \\ ales, the Duke of Ooburg, tlie Duke of Counaught, and her Majesty's grandsons and such sons-in-law a? are not themselves kings. At the head of the will ride or march the live hundred military representatives of the colonies, and selected companies from every branch of her Majesty's military and naval services. The carriages preceding the Queen's will be the Royal Princesses, British and foreign. The cavalcade is expected to extend over the sixth of a mile, and it will be necessary when it reaches St. Paul's that the majority of the troops should pass on while Her Majesty and the Princes and Princesses group themselves at the foot of the steps at the west front of St. Paul's. For the service itself not more than twenty minutes at the very outside will be allowed. The Queen's carriage will draw up immediately in front of tlie great steps, and the other Koyal carriages will be grouped in a semicircle. On the steps will stand the Ohurch dignitaries, and near them the Queen's Ministers, State officials and Colonial Ministers, diplomatic representatives, and other important pei soilages. The Queen will remain seated, and .there will be a short service of prayer and thanksgiving, a brief address by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the singing of a special anthem, and, closing all, the Benediction. One arrangement, said to be due to the Queen herself, is peculiarly worth of Her Majesty as a woman. It is that which provides for a large enclosure in the Park being set apart strictly for children, whom the Queen is specially anxious to be aUorded a good opportunity of seeing and remembering the pageant. Altogether, if the woathev shoe,ld be favorable. the spectacle will be one without au e<pial in the long course of English hi story.