Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They knew that St. Edward's Crown, six pounds of jewels and gold and the most important piece of regalia, was being carried by the elderly Marquess of Salisbury, Lord High Steward of England; that among the nine pages supporting the King's robe were three young sons of World War heroes, inheritors of their titles: Earl Haig, Earl Jellicoe, Earl Kitchener; that because of an ancient squabble over precedent, the King's golden spurs, symbol of knighthood, were carried one apiece by Lord Hastings and Lord Churston; and that the bearer of the Standard of England...
Apotheosis, Last week before an audience of the world's great. Cosmo Gordon Lang achieved the biggest attainable goal of a British prelate. He crowned a King and with holy oil anointed him a demi-priest in God's service. And it was a King of whom he could be proud- dutiful, earnest, orthodox, obedient, anxious to please. Much has been written of the physical strain of a Coronation service for a monarch. For an elderly Archbishop who must stand on his feet through all the hours of the service the strain is even greater. The crimson-coped...
...promptly cut out. News of this excision soon spread, and thousands of British cinemaddicts who flocked to the movies were bitterly disappointed to see how little of the Abbey ceremony had been left in. Audiences vented their spleen on the Archbishop by sniggering when he was shown examining the Crown as if to see that none of the stones had been stolen...
...fields of Schleswig-Holstein, over the belts (straits) of Denmark to tidebitten Zealand Island on whose eastern promontory, only three miles from Sweden across the Sound, lies clean, quiet Copenhagen. From the plane landing at Kastrup, Denmark's top-ranking airport, would step Denmark's broad-shouldered Crown Prince Frederik and his wife, who was Sweden's pretty, blonde Princess Ingrid...
Partner King. Even more than the Swedes, the Norwegians, the Dutch and the Belgians, the Danes regard their Crown and its wearer as honored (but not sanctified or adulated) elements of a partnership in the business of national living. They call it Forretningen Danmark (the business firm of Denmark) but the connotation is social and philosophical as well as commercial. On his daily horseback rides through Copenhagen, the King of Denmark nods to civilians, salutes ladies, chats with small boys or truckdrivers- and obeys traffic lights-not with the self-conscious condescension that is forced upon British royalty but with...