THE CORONATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 24 April 1937, Page 9

THE CORONATION

GRAMOPHONE RECORDING OF CEREMONY I PERMISSION GIVEN BY THE KING PROFITS TO BE DEVOTED TO CHARITY [United Preps Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyrigluj (Received 24th April, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, 23rd April. The King has given permission for a gramophone recording to be made of the Coronation ceremony. It is believed to be the first time in history of such a recording. The original metal matrices will be deposited in the British Museum, thus preserving them for posterity. All profits from the sale of the record are being devoted to charity.

MAHARANI OF JODHPUR

ARRIVAL BY AIR REMARKABLE PRECAUTIONS TAKEN LONDON, 22nd April. The Maharani of Jodhpur arrived from Karachi by air to witness the Coronation. She was enabled by remarkable precautions to maintain a lifelong purdah, necessitating neither a man nor a woman who is not of the Maharaja’s or Maharani’s caste getting a glimpse of the Maharani’s heavily veiled face or touching her food. The Maharaja, despite an income of £BOO,OOO a year was unable to hire a special plane and accordingly reserved a cabin in a KLM plane in which the crew were locked in the cockpit at each end of the stage until the Maharani left the plane and reached a private room. Finally at Croydon the Maharani left the plane by a canvas-covered tunnel and entered a motor car, the windows of which were painted over, and drove to London, where she is similarly secluded.