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Vivat Regina. From the west door of the Abbey, Westminster's beadle led the ranking clergy of Great Britain to the foot of the altar steps. The orders of knighthood followed-Bath, Thistle and Garter-then the standards of the Commonwealth, led by Ceylon's (a lion grasping a sword), and concluded by the Royal Arms of England, borne by Montgomery of Alamein. Polity, law and religion-the triple stays of monarchy-were impressively represented in the persons of eight Prime Ministers (of Ceylon, Pakistan, India, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and Britain), two Archbishops (York...
...Queen's train, and slipped over Her Majesty's arms a white muslin smock. Thus, with jewels hidden, Elizabeth crossed the chancel to her seat in King Edward's chair. The choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla. The Archbishop moistened his finger...
...167th annual dinner of London's Royal Academy of Arts heard the personal art credo of Sir Winston Churchill who appeared in public for the first time wearing his blue sash and silver badge of the Order of the Garter. Said Sir Winston...
...ceremonial sword from her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, Elizabeth II touched Churchill, first on the right shoulder, then on the left, and bade him: "Rise, Sir Winston." Then she shook him warmly by the hand and presented him with the insignia of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.* A higher honor of nobility elevating Churchill to the peerage would have removed him from his beloved House of Commons to the House of Lords...
Even a third dimension would not give depth to The Pathfinder, the conventionally-filmed cofeature. At one point, 'cooncapped George Montgomery embraces Helena Garter and then reflects, "I shouldn't have done it." He could say the same of the entire picture...