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LONG LIVE HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II BUTT RADIO AND APPLIANCE WHITBY ONG lgateth, YA NOBLE QUEEN Coronation Day -- 1953 MAPLE LEAF BILLIARD ACADEMY HARRY VORVIS, Proprietor ALLIN'S DRUG STORE WHITBY YOUNG PRINCESS makes her first broadcast-- talking to the children of England about the war. ' ON HER 18TH BIRTHDAY in 1944 young Princess begins busy round of her first official duties. Westminster Abbey Has Seen Many Coronations For nine hundred years every Sovereign of England (except Ed- ward V and Edward VIII, who were not crowned) has been hal- lowed and crowned in Westminster Abbey. The Collegiate Church of St. Peter in Westminster, to give | The Conqueror's successors had {the same reason as he had for |beng crowned n the Abbey, and there was the addtional reason that the adjacent Palace with the Confessor had built soon served to {link Westminster with the eivil it its full title, is a Royal Chapel government as well as with the and a Royal Peculiar, that is, ex- empt from all jurisdiction other than that of the Sovereign herself. It is also a national and imperial shrine where lie buried not only Kings and Princes, but an im- mense company of those who have been honoured down the centuries for outstanding service in Church and State, in the arts and sciences, and in many other fields of endea- vour. As to the reasons why some of | the Saxon Kings chose Winchester for their Coronation, we can only speculate, but wher it was the Church. So a tradition was formed which called for respect. By the time of Henry III the tradition was established. He himself had become King at the age of nine, and had been crowned ten days later in Gloucester Cathedral which was then, like Westminster, the church of a great Benedictine Monastery. But when he was twelve he was crowned again.at Westminster, a kind of coming of age as we may suppose. It was some years later that he resolved to replace the church then exist- ing by a new building. The Con- capital it must hive been approp-|fessor's church had been in the riate. When William the Conquer-| new French style of the eleventh or came over from Normandy and | century -- what we call the Nor- seized the throne, there was one |man style -- and Henry's church place more obviously fitted for his | which replaced it was in the new Coronation than any other. That |French style of the thirteenth cen- was the newly-built church of the |tury, modified or, as someone has Abbey of Westminster, for this |said, 'translated' by an English church was much the largest that |architect. It is immensely tall; it had ever been built in England has a ring of chapels round the tested, but at least it is certain that Henry III had a Coronation church in mind, such as the French Kings already had at Rheims. The crowning of almost every king since Harold of Westminster largely accounts for the Abbey be- ing in so many senses ia national possession. Its unparalleled collec- tion of monuments and memorials are the tribute of the nation to its great men and an epitome of its history. It stands close by the Houses of Parliament at the seat of government. And it is thronged by a vast number of visitors who come to see this national posses- sion. Yet in one sense it is private, for the Abbey is not in any prov- ince or diocese of the Church. It has no Bishop's throne in it, and is not a cathedral, though in a sense it might be called the Sov- ereign's own cathedral, for there the Throne is set for the Corona- tion, and the Coronation chair is housed there. But the great religious ceremony of the Coronation must not be se- parated from the daily worship which is offered in the Abbey. If the Abbey were not a living House {of God, but merely a dead monu- | {ment of the past, the Coronation | {might be a fine civic ceremony, {but it would not be so fully what iin fact it is, the Consecration of |the Head of a State and a Com- | monwealth. DUKE OF NORFOLK The Duke of Norfolk, who is in Crowds Watch Our Mounties By DAVE MCcINTOSH Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON (CP)--Canada's Mount- ies probably have the best spot of | all in fevered London--inside a | wire enclosure in Hyde Park where the public can't get at them. All week, the local citizenry and the tougher tourists have packed in thousands around Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, or any other place where the Queen or some lesser notable might show up. Hordes wait for hours for a glimpse of Princess Margaret leaving a ball or the Queen Mother going to a luncheon. In fact, any handful of men in strange uniforms, such as the Mounties practising their musical ride for the Coronation or the Aus- trgJians mounting guard at the pal- ace, is apt to draw a multitude. So many descended on the RCMP in Hyde Park's Knightsbridge bar- racks that the Redcoats had to with draw behind a high wire fence. Hundreds still gather outside to watch the Mounties exercising their horses, giving them mane hair- cuts with an outsize electric razor or polishing harness, RELIGIOUS PLAY THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Monday, June 1, 1058 § <p 8 Eli ss -- ------ _-- == -- = Coronation Day, June 2 JAMES SAWDON AND SONS WHITBY n Ween, y/A LONG MAY SHE REIGN OVER CANADA AND THE . COMMONWEALTH OF FREE PEOPLES ! LIMITED WHITBY Tw Lortl Quem On the occasion (or in Normandy) so far; it was East end; and it has the choir to a royal foundation and stood al- most touching the King's palace; and on foot or by water it could easily be reached from his City of London. The Abbey had been con- | secrated in December, 1065, and William chose to be crowned in it on Christmas Day in 1066, after defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings in the previous October. Whether Harold had been crowned in the Abbey is uncertain. If so, the West of the transepts. All this suited the monks for whom it was { built; it also suited excellently the | Coronation ceremony. The crossing where the nave, |the sanctuary, and the transepis meet made an admirable 'theatre' (as' it is called) and there the Coronation and Enthronement of the Sovereign still take place. It is said that the Abbey has no en- tral spire or tower because that GOD SAVE THE QUEEN Long May She Reign IN THE SPIRIT OF THE CORONATION VISCOUNT GREENWOOD CHAPTER, WHITBY, IMPERIAL ORDER DAUGH- TERS OF THE EMPIRE, JOIN IN EXPRESSING THEIR LOYALTY AND ALLEGIANCE TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN, CANADA AND THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH, ! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN it was very soon after the death | would require the piers on which of Edward the Confessor. He died |it would have rested to be much on 5th January, charge of all the coronation ar- {27 to preside, with his Duchess, |of a religious play shortly after at a Coronation Ball in the Royal |the Coronation. The first perform- Albert Hall. A "Pageant of Coron-|ance will be on June 15. This will ations', held at midnight, illustrat- | be the first chance for the public ed historic incidents of bygone to see the Abbey as it is arranged | ceremonies. [fe the coronation. ORGANIZED BALL | Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier; CORONATION MONTH Noel Coward and Cecil Beaton are | During this coronation month of among those who organized a ball [June a pageant based on episodes {in the aid of the National Playing |in the lives of the eight Queens | Pields Association at the Savoy Who have ruled England will be Westminister Abbey, for the first | rangements, took time off on May time in history, will be the scene | of the Coronation of Her Majesty (Queen Elizabeth II, 1066; Harold's |bigger than they are, and so the |Hotel. The ball is being held to-|DPresented in the village of Headley, Coronation was perhaps on the view of the Coronation would be |morrow night -- the night of the |in Hampshire. Headley is 45 miles very next day. blocked. This opinion has been con- | Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.'north of London. A CORONATION THOUGHT Britain's myriad voices call *'Sons be welded each and all, Into one imperial whole, One with Britain, heart and soul! One life, one flag, one fleet, one Throne." Britons, hold your own! 4 --ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON DEVERELL MOTORS - WHITBY Whitby Branch 112 _@ Of the Canadian C wedi Legion, British al Empire Service D League, Pledges Unswerving Loyalty To Her Majesty's® Person and Throne! GOD SAVE Cheat br rans aE RAR EERE RAE as We Ea eh