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WEDNESDAY, MAY Fth~ 1953
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LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!
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Wishes on This Momentous Occasion for long life,
good health and happiness.
May Her Reign Be Blessed With
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GOD SAVE THE QUEEN7
Rae and Porteous
HARDWARE MERCHANTS
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PAGE TWELVE TINEL, LUCKNOW, ONTARIO
SYMBOLIC OF A GREAT EVENT
Long May She Reign
McKim’s Drug Store
THE HEX ALL STORE
Phone 32, Lucknow, Ont.
God Save Queen Elizabeth!
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May Her Reign Be Blessed With
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Peace and Prosperity !
McLennan and Mackenzie
Funeral Service & Furniture
Phone 181, Lucknow
We join with Fellow Canadians and Peoples of 4he
Commonwealth to honour one who has WOn the
admiration of all her . subjects.
LONG LIVE the QUEEN!
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cession, the Yeomen march be
side the Royal Coach—tradition
al Tudor figure?. in a. ‘Twentieth
Century se^tii^g, They appear at
many State functions, and always
al^the Opening of jparliBWent.
The Day of Coronation.
Juiie second, 1953-^-rthe streets
of London, are ablaze with col
our, Amid a riot of royal in
signia, flags, bunting and flowers,
the hundreds of thousands iwho
have • come-4o the ancient capital
from, every corner bf .the, globe
line the Coronation route. Excite
ment mounts as th^y wait for that
thrilling hxprnent when the gold
en Coachof.State, will come. A
steady procession of open car
riages has already gone along the
historic drive to Westminster Ab
bey. Relatives of the Royal Famr
ily arid, (foreign/ representatives
from every country in the world
make up the cavalcade. iDowmthe
Mall, past rigid fed-coated troops
at thfe salute, <the processions
move through Admiralty Arch
into Trafalgar Square, where
Loi*d Nelson looks down on the
scene. Along Whitehall and then
to the Abbey, go the coaches with
royalties in scarlet robes, military
arid naval officers resplendent in
gold braid, diplomats and their
wives in colorful costumes, peer
esses gowned in gold,-silver and
white, their mantles of ruby red
velvet rich with ermine trim and
gold embroidery adding brilliajrit.
splashes of color to the parade
of nobility.
. The Royal Coach of State
Like a tidal wave come the
roaring cheer? that herald the
approach of the gfeat Royal
Coach of State. This magnificent
coach was builV for George III
at a cost of JSfWO/and was first
used at th^Opening of Paflia-
merit in 17o2. It is. now1 used for
Coronations only, and7 will make
its seventh appearance in a Cor
onation—procession When-Queen
Elizabeth II drives from Bucking
ham Palace to Westminster Ab
bey. _The State Coach, .is drawn
by eight Windsor 'greys- iri gold
and crimson harness with a
postillion in gold-braided . scarlet
jacket and jockey-style esq)
astride the left-hand horse in
each pair. Grooms and the ancient
Yeomen of. the Queen’s Body
guard march alongside. The Royal
Coach is preceded by, a number
of coaches bearing close relatives
of tne Royal Family-’ In a glass-
enclosed carriage, waving. with
youthfur excitement are Prince
Charles^ and his sister, Princess
Anne. The captain’s escort of
Household Cavalry with shiny
"breastplates ' and tossing plumes
lead this main procession, which
is joined, en route by the coaches
of the Queen Mother., '
The Historic Abbey
When the Royal procession ar
rives at the west entrance of
Westminster Abbey, the young
Queen and her Prin<?e Consort,
Duke of Edinburgh, aref greeted
by the Duke .of .Norfolk; He is
the hereditary Earl Marshal of
England, fesponsibie. for the or-
iganization of the secular side of
the complicated Coronation cere
monial. . . J' .
Upon the arrival of Her Maj
esty, a magnificent procession
makes its way up the Nave. The
Choir bursts into, song with the
AnthehL, Cfrom--the__ojie-h.uhdrerL:
and twenty -second Psalm) surig
at CoronatiOns since the crownirig
of Charles I. As she emerges from
beneath the ofgari .loft thri Qu^en
is greeted' with, cries of “ViVat
ReginaL - Elizabethan Viva.t! Vivat!
Vivat!”, shouted fey Queen's
Scholars of Westminster School,
who have. exercised th is privil-
egd™for^tv^elve-Coronations. Thjs
greeting represents the Only sur
viving use of Latin in ithe Cor
onation ceremony. When the pro
cession • reaches the High Altar
.or_-2iTheatrel’T__i‘ ~
her ( seat on the Sanctuary^
sodtlv side. Then .comes the Re
cognition .as the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the great officers .of
State and the Garter King-of-
Arrris, go to each cornrir of the
- “Theatre’*, in turn cal ling out :
“Queen Elizabeth, your undoubt
ed Queen: Wherefore All you
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SAVE QUEEN ELIZABETH!
LONG MAY SHE; WEAR THE CROWN
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