STATELY CEREMONIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 306, 24 November 1932, Page 7

STATELY CEREMONIAL.

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Nov. 23. When the King, accompanied by the Queen, drove to the opening of Parliament to-day, the route was lined by detachments of the Guards Regiment and police, and the pageant was witnessed by a vast crowd of people. Their warm cheers were acknowledged by Their Majesties, who travelled in a magnificent State coach, drawn by eight bay horses, with mounted equerries and Yeomen of the Guard on foot in their picturesque uniform in close attendance. The ladies and gentlemen of the Royal household followed ini five State landaus, each drawn by four horses, and the Sovereign’s escort of Household Cavalry accompanied the procession. Before the procession arrived, the Prince of Wales in a State landeau drove to the House of Lords, accompanied by an escort of Household Cavalry, and was accorded a popular reception along the route. The Dukes of York and Gloucester were present in the Chamber, where, with customary ceremonial, in which the great officers of State and State officials took part, the King and Queen made their progress from the robing room to the throne in the House of Lords.