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raqh eight coronation supplement may 195s taxpayers don t bear royal household costs income from duchy of cornwall greatly exceeds annual expenses the civil list as the authorized payments to the royal household are called provide an annual m of 475000 to meet the cost of what is probably one of the most complicated organizations in the world it looks like a lot of money but since the value of the pound has more than halved since the days of king edward vii who received 470000 it is clear that the present soveeign must make do on half the original income the next point to be perfectly clear about is that this sum is not personal income it maintains not simply a per sonal home but a complex smoothlyrunning organization which is a vital and valued part of the commonwealth her majestys household is a broad general term embodying the state and constitutional machinery that re volves around the sovereign the select committee which recently reported on the civil list commented in fact on the enormous increase in the scope and burden of the sov ereigns duties royal visits within britain itself are in numerable they give great pleasure and are an important part of a queens duties the number of public functions increases there are more official visitors to receive for instead of only one commonwealth government there are now several whose members have the right to be received when they visit britain the number of ambassadors ac credited to the court of st james grows larger every year with the decreasing value of money the late king george effected many economies and the select committee agree that there is no scope for further saving not only is the royal household run with an economical efficiency which some business houses might well envy but considering its complexitv and heavy responsibilities it costs extraordinary little it is far less than the cost of a battleship it costs less in a year than the british people gamble in a single week it is less than half the gross income of two famous english dukes and a mere pittance com- pared with the fabulous personal incomes of some eastern poten tates whose names are not even known to the man in the street revenues prom duchy the value of a monarchy such as ours cannot of course be mea sured in terms of cash what is not generally understood however is that in point of fact the british taxpayer does not pay a penny to wards the expenses of the royal household the queen who is en titled to the revenues of the duchy of cornwall foregoes that income presenting it to the exchequer and receiving instead a grant by way of the civil list now the income from the duchy of cornwall and from crown lands amounts to a total of 1 212000 far from costing the na tion 470000 a year therefore the queen in fact makes the nation a present of very much more than that how does the money go the estimates are less than his 64 years he is even- tempered a brilliant administrator and has handled the finances of the palace so expertly that the public were unaware that balanc ing up was often not an easy task sir ulick is enormously popu lar with the palace staff his good humour and competence help them to solve all problems his irish ancestry and his background eton sandhurst service with the coldstream guards in egypt and palestine political secretary to the earl of athlone while gover norgeneral of the union of south africa have combined to make of him the perfect royal servant her majestys privy purse salaries of her majestys household expenses of her majestys household royal bounty alms and special services t 60000 185000 121800 13200 95000 supplementary provision- components of household of what does the household consist ono can hardly define it precisely because some of the sov ereigns servants while an import ant part of the entourage do not actually live at the palace others hold of ce by tradition but in prac tice have little connection with the court household for instance includes the keeper of the jewel house at the tower of london and the yeomen of the guard are equally royal servants broadly speaking the royal household consists of a number of departments each with a head some servants whose office is of extreme antiquity and who figure in the most important of functions are not paid anything but a nom inal wage the heralds for in stance whose office goes back to norman times and who figure in proclamations the state opening of parliament and suchlike occa sions receive for their highly dec orative duties only a few pounds a year less than an energetic char women can earn in britain nowa days by scrubbing floors simi larly many servants give their services free and are proud and glad to do it treasury expert luckily for the present queen sir ulick alexander recently ap pointed keeper of the privy purse and treasurer to the queen has hold that post since 1936 and has served the royal family in vary ing capacities for over 30 years looking always immaculate and works of famous poets composers get public preview twelve songs for the corona tion written by britains most dis tinguished composers and poets will be heard for the first time on june 1 at the royal festival hall london composers include ralph vaugh- an williams sir arthur bliss john ireland sir george dyson and richard arnell poets whose work is being set to music include walter de la mare edith sitwell stephen spender cecil day lewis and henry reed o big ben is worlds best knoun clock towering high above westmin ster 320 feet above the members of parliament below is the best known clock in the world big ben it figures in millions of pic ture postcards thousands of paint ings innumerable newsreels and press photographs its chimes have been broadcast by the bbc ever since as an experiment they were used to ring out the old year on december 31 1923 and ring in the new and the scheduled news bul letins in britain they are broad cast forty times a day in overseas tranmissions world hears chimes at tho coronation loo this 93- yearold clock will have its vital part to play hundreds of thous ands of spectators will watch its giant hands as the hour of the arrival of the royal procession at the abbey draws nearer the whole world will hear its chimes as it tunes in to hear of the great event and londoners especially will feel for big ben a renewed affec tion for them the clock is a sym bol of the dignity and romance of a great city the coronation chair made of oak in 13001301 has been used at every coronation for the crowning or anointing of the monarch since the coronationof edward ii the chair is 6 ft 92 inches high and when first made was enriched with gilt gesso decorations and glass mosaics in the 17th and 18th centuries the chair was greviously mutilated but some of the original decoration remains the coronation chair rests on four lions the seat is made to slide in and out and in the space beneath rests the stone of scone the coronation stone is a roughly cut rectangular hewn block of coarsegrained reddish grey sandstone 26 inches by 16i inches by 11 inches thick it was placed near the shrine of edward the confessor in westminster abbey before being incorporated in the coronation chair warriors will escort the queen on entry into westminster abbey by peter wildeblood london daily mail the men who led britains fighting forces in the war have been chosen to walk beside the queen when she enters westminster abbey on coronation day in january the earl marshal announced the names of those who have been chosen forthe queens procession names which were made famous on the battlefields of burma of france of the western desert in the air and at sea the chief honour of walking in front of the queen carrying the st edwards crown has been given to admiral of the fleet viscount cunningham wartime commander- inchief mediterranean and first sea lord his appointment as lord high steward is made for coronation day alone fieldmarshal viscount montgomery of alamein will carry the royal standard the sceptre with the cross which contains one of the largest diamonds in the world will be borne by marshal of the raf viscount portal who was head of bomber command and chief of the air staff during the war the office of lord high constable of england which was carried out at three successive coronations by the great duke of wellington has been given to fieldmarshal vis count alanbrooke the wartime chief of the imperial general staff he will walk in the procession beside the earl marshal the duke of norfolk the standard of ireland the orb a golden globe sur mounted by a jewelled cross will be carried into the abbey by field- marshal earl alexander of tunis mediterranean supreme command er at the end of the war others in the procession who have given distinguished service to their country are lord de lisle and dudley vc who will carry the standard of ireland and three holders of the military cross the earl of derby carrying the standard of england vis count allendale and earl fortes- cue who as knights of the garter will hold the golden canopy over the queen during the anointing ceremony the union standard will be borne in the procession by captain j l m dymoke whose ancestors have taken part in coronations since the 14th century up to the coronation of george iv the head of the dymoke family acted as kings champion he had the right to appear fully armed and on horseback at the banquet after the coronation and challenge to mortal combat anyone who dared to gainsay the sov ereigns right to the crown this picturesque custom was afterwards abandoned together with the ban quet and the dymokes have since then been given a less colourful part in the celebrations another hereditary right to take part in the procession is that of vis count dudhopc who will bear the standard of scotland as his fore bears the scrymogeour wedder- burns the first name means a good fighter have done for generations began with king charles i these men with other represent atives of the church the nobility and the orders of chivalry will be bv the queens side when she en- procession travels historic route continued from page 6 by dull northumberland avenue to the embankment and to parlia ment square and so to west minster abbey on her return from the abbey the crowned queen comes by storied whitehall past the banquet hall which inigo jones built for james i and from which jamess son charles i stepped to the scaffold past downing street where premiers live and past all the chief ministries on through trafalgar square again and on to our most gregarious male streets pall mall st jamess street and piccadilly where londons chief clubs hive and mildly buzz many exclusive clubs in pall mall the chief clubs are the athenaeum the travellers the reform the united service the oxford and cambridge the united universities and the malborough founded they say by edward vii when prince of wales be cause he was not allowed to smoke at whites the largest is the royal automobile and near it stands the blitzed shell that was the carlton these lay monaster ies compose a street unique in the world and the most stately char acteristic thoroughfare in london st jamess street with its palace at the bottom and hollands seem ly brookss club whites clui the oldest club and boodles with its elegant fanlike front and others may dispute this the street has also a bootmaker whose wares al most establish your social status and a wine merchant whose great scales have weighed and kept the records of royalties peers and notable folk for 200 years stately buildings piccadilly with the green park bowcring one side at its western end its happy undulation that so enlivens its distance its hotels and club buildings and old family man sions now nearly all offices ending in apsley house where the duke of wellington lived and now is his museum is londons most charming street and so north by the east carriage way of hyde park alongside park lane that is becoming the boulevard of fashion able hotel life to the marble arch that once stood in front of buckingham palace a show street then eastward by oxford street with its vast shop and hinterland of eminent squares and streets at oxford circus the procession moves south down regent street one of the few london show streets that were designed as a whole it was built as a grand driveway for the prince regent to use in his outings from his carl ton house to his new regent park it was rebuilt between the wars fronted with portland stone and leads to that centre of london rejoicing piccadilly circus with as its centre eros on his fountain passes theatres the route then wends south through haymarket where are londons most ancient and prim mest shopfront a snuffmakcrs and its prestige theatre the hay- market as well as beerbohm trees her majestys then past norway house and the massive canada house to trafalgar square through admiralty arch and the crowned queen drives along the mall again past queen victoria on her marble throne and so home to the palace with the acclamations of the nation ringing and sounding around her o lives of queens basis for pageant iii english village a pageant based on episodes in the lives of the eight queens who have ruled england will be pre sented in a garden at the village of hcadlcy in hampshire during the coronation month of june headloy is 45 miles south of london ters by the west door of the ab bey while the choir sings the 122nd psalm as they have since the cor onation of charles i i was glad when they said unto- me we will go into the house of the lord andwhon the ceremony is fin ished they will escort their queen now wearing the glittering imperial crown and carrying a sceptre in each hand out into the bellloud streets where her people arc wait ing to greet elizabeth the second