FOR THE KING'S USE.
No other race of animals can show such a history as the black oxen that draw the funeral cars of dead Japanese Emperors. They are of a special breed, and for centuries have been kept, for the sole use of the Imperial family.
The cream-colored Hanoverian horses, reserved for the British Royal family, are nearly as famous, but some of these animals once wore the yoke of an alien and an enemy When Napoleon occupied Hanover, in 1804, he seized all the cream-coloured horsf-s in the Royal stables, and took them to Paris The state carriage at his coronation was drawn by eight of these animals.
This insult, as he regarded it, made George 111. so angry that he would not use the others of the breed that were stabled in London. Until the fall of Napoleon the state coach was always drawn by black horses when the King or his son, the Prince Regent, opened Parliament.
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Northern Advocate, 26 August 1913, Page 2
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161FOR THE KING'S USE. Northern Advocate, 26 August 1913, Page 2
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