KING’S CORONATION

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 123, 26 May 1936, Page 7

KING’S CORONATION

DAILY MAIL GIVES DATE NATURE. OF PROCEEDINGS LONDON, May 24. The Daily Mail in announcing that the Coronation will be livid on Ihuisday, May 27, 1937. says tint the King next Thursday will sign :i:i Ordcr-in- .. Council setting in motion ’he Coronaci tion arrangements, after which scarlet r robed kings-at-arms, with heralds and J pursuivants, on Friday will proclaim the Coronation date at the. 'lemple Bar. e Charing Cross, Royal ExcDange, and St. ,j James’ Palact. r Then the Pri’-y Council will irnmedi--1 ateiy begin the establishment of the Court of Claims under the presidency of the Lord Chancellor, which will exist onlv to decide which English citizens will be privileged to attend the King at the Coronation, including who shall* cam- each his glove.? and spurs, who will be the hereditary poulterer, and bearer of the third sword, also whether the mayors of tho /' nqne Ports will carry a canopy over the King. All claimants upheld will have excellent positions at the Coronation, but many claims will probaoly be rejected, like , the woman who claimed to be the 1 “chief herb strewer for Kina George s - Coronation.” The King'.-> Crown has li alreadv been removed from the Tower e to enable it to fit His Maje ty. The Duke of York, heir presumptive, it will make a State visit to Wales in c 1937. representing the King at the forr mn] equivalent to the Coronation He o will also travel to the foreign Courts [i formally tn announce the a< -< ossion.