THE CORONATION BOOK OF KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH

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The whole service was pretty long and it was certainly very impressive. It got to the point where people were eating sandwiches out of their coronets. After my turn, I remember an elderly peer’s robes, which would have probably been owned by his grandfather, virtually disintegrated when he got up to do his homage. That was Lord Mowbray, the senior baron, and Lord Hastings promptly fell over when he knelt down. In the days that followed my mother took my sister and me to the Thanksgiving Service at St Paul’s Cathedral. There was also a lunch at the Guildhall, we went to the Royal Tournament – and I became godfather to Henry Lascelles, son of my cousin, Gerald Lascelles. The coronation of H. M. King George VI and H. M. Queen Elizabeth 1937. An Album to contain players coronation series of cigarette cards The Crown Prince of Greece, the King's double second cousin (representing his brother, the King of the Hellenes)

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. A book to celebrate the lives of King George VI and his family at the time of his coronation following his unexpected accession as King in 1936. In clean and sound condition, although there is some rusting around the staples. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK 64 p. Book. King George V had severe reservations about Prince Edward, saying "After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months" and "I pray God that my eldest son will never marry and that nothing will come between Bertie and Lilibet and the throne." [49] On 20 January 1936, George V died and Edward ascended the throne as King Edward VIII. In the Vigil of the Princes, Prince Albert and his three brothers (the new king, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and Prince George, Duke of Kent) took a shift standing guard over their father's body as it lay in state, in a closed casket, in Westminster Hall. Beginning in 1909, Albert attended the Royal Naval College, Osborne, as a naval cadet. In 1911 he came bottom of the class in the final examination, but despite this he progressed to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth. [12] When his grandfather Edward VII died in 1910, his father became King George V. Prince Edward became Prince of Wales, with Albert second in line to the throne. [13] A Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God Commended by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for General Use on Wednesday, the Twelfth Day of May 1937, Being the Day of the Coronation of Their Majesties King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Not a British prince by birth, but created Prince Consort. 2 Not a British prince by birth, but created a Prince of the United Kingdom.

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Novello and Company, London 1937. vi, (ii), 143, (1) pp. Soft cover. Musical scores with words and text. Pictorial Paper Wraps. Condition: About Fine. An abridged Form of the Official Ceremony. A sounvenir edition published in Canada. 16pp, illustrated, silk tie at spine in red and purple. Bright, clean copy with a sound binding. Almost as issued. Weight, 80g. Size: 8" by 11". Book. Album in 8°, br. edit. decorata, fregi in oro, pp.24. Composto da 50 figurine in cromolit. applicate entro cornici floreali. In basso didascalia descrittiva in inglese sulla storia dell'incoronazione e ill. intercalate n.t. Piega centrale alla prima di cop. per il resto buon. es. completo.Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. with 24 cold. plates, incl. frontis., and many b.w. photos. 4to. paper wraps. Covers a little marked, else v.g. Across Britain, gossip spread that Albert was physically and psychologically incapable of being king. No evidence has been found to support the contemporaneous rumour that the government considered bypassing him, his children and his brother Prince Henry, in favour of their younger brother Prince George, Duke of Kent. [53] This seems to have been suggested on the grounds that Prince George was at that time the only brother with a son. [54] Early reign [ edit ] Crown coin with George in profile, 1937 Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Except for three very small holes, the magazine is in great shape. Includes A Prayer by then Poet Laureate John Masefield plus many pictures, information on the family, details of the service and the instruments of the coronation.

THE CORONATION BOOK OF KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH

The Coronation of their Majesties King George VI & Queen Elizabeth , Official Souvenir Programme , May 12th 1937 Heathcote, Tony (2012), The British Field Marshals: 1736–1997: A Biographical Dictionary, Casemate Publisher, ISBN 978-1783461417, archived from the original on 29 July 2016 , retrieved 18 March 2016 Path to the throne: a short biography of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, and notes on the coronation service and the regalia

Shawcross, William (2009). Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother: The Official Biography. Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4859-0. Soft cover. Condition: Good. Center Stapled, Softcover. In Good Condition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. American edtion of souvenir program. In nicer shape than most ephemera from this period. Piece of clear tape insde front cover. Royalty in Essex: A Souvenir Book for Essex Children, Presented by the County Council of Essex on the Occasion of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on June 2nd 1953 Early life [ edit ] Four kings: Edward VII (far right); his son George, Prince of Wales, later George V (far left); and grandsons Edward, later Edward VIII (rear); and Albert, later George VI (foreground), c. 1908