Sepia photographs throughout; red board covers ( front embossed ) with title and coat of arms in gold; slight fading to edges of front boards; a very clean copy within. We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. In February 1918 Albert was appointed Officer in Charge of Boys at the Royal Naval Air Service's training establishment at Cranwell.

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He had been introduced as "His Royal Highness Prince Edward" for the abdication broadcast, [56] but George VI felt that by abdicating and renouncing the succession, Edward had lost the right to bear royal titles, including "Royal Highness".The King then knelt before the altar and swore on the Bible his coronation oath, a copy of which he then signed. In reviewing the broadcast, The Daily Telegraph commented: "Horse and foot, the Coronation procession marched into English homes yesterday," while the Daily Mail said: "When the King and Queen appeared the picture was so vivid that one felt that this magical television is going to be one of the greatest of all modern inventions. Contents: Lines on the coronation of our gracious sovereign / John Masefield A foreword / by His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester The Queen's Majesty / by Arthur Bryant Queen Elizabeth II / by Dermot Morrah The coronation procession The coronation ceremony / by the Hon. Willmott, H P (2010) The Last Century of Sea Power: From Washington to Tokyo, 1922–1945, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-35214-9 (pp. She was then handed the Queen Consort's Sceptre with Cross and the Queen Consort's Ivory Rod with Dove, before walking over to her own throne beside the King, where she sat.

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In a break with tradition, his mother Queen Mary attended the ceremony in a show of support for her son. The King was disrobed of his Royal Robe of State by the Lord Great Chamberlain and put on the Robe of Purple Velvet. Nonetheless, a number of those present, the King included, commented privately on the spirituality of the ceremony. Lanctot, Gustave (1964), Royal Tour of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Canada and the United States of America 1939, Toronto: E.

The 1902 Coronation was the first to see such a programme implemented, but 1937 was nearly twice as long, and, building on similar developments in 1911, it was a very public spectacle; Sir Roy Strong argues that the month-long festivities were designed to "recapture the confidence of the nation" following the abdication crisis. The final coronation event was the Review of the Fleet, held on 20 May at Spithead off the coast at Portsmouth.

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Lady Elizabeth Ivy Percy (1916–2008), daughter of the Duke of Northumberland; she later became the Duchess of Hamilton.From Westminster Abbey, it passed around Parliament Square and up the Victoria Embankment (where 40,000 schoolchildren were waiting) [44] and then along Northumberland Avenue, into Trafalgar Square, up Cockspur Street through to Pall Mall; from there, the procession went up St James' Street, joining Piccadilly, then up Regent Street, then west along Oxford Street, before turning past Marble Arch and then down East Carriage Road, alongside Hyde Park; from there, the procession passed through Hyde Park Corner and then through Wellington Arch, on to Constitution Hill and then back into Buckingham Palace. As a preliminary to the coronation, guests from across the Empire and around the world assembled at Buckingham Palace and official receptions were held to welcome them; among those attending were Indian princes and, for the first time, native African royalty. The widespread unwillingness to accept Simpson as the King's consort, and Edward's refusal to give her up, led to his abdication in December 1936. May 1937 included a programme of royal events lasting nearly the entire month to commemorate and mark the occasion. Rising Indian nationalism made the welcome that the royal party would have received likely to be muted at best, [62] and a prolonged absence from Britain would have been undesirable in the tense period before the Second World War.