CHILDREN AT THE CORONATION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1091, 1 April 1911, Page 11

CHILDREN AT THE CORONATION.

SOME TINY FOLK OF BANK.

Upon no section of tho vast congregation which will assemble in Westminster Abbey to view the Coronation ceremonial will the historic scene produce a more abiding impression that upon the children, the elder sons and daughters of Peers and some who have already succeeded to their titles, who arc to be present.

It is not difficult to realise the enormous interest such an occasion will have, for impressionable young minds. Many of the boys and girls who will bu included in the illustrious company are, of course, contemporaries and friends of Frincess Mary and the young princes her brothers.

Of tho young people who will be present on this great day who have already succeeded to their .titles it :is probable that tho youthful Peeresses:will vweaiv tho traditional robes of: tJlciriJiigher ; ejtate,.... Peers who have not taken their seats iri the- House of Lords owing to their tender age have not the right as Peers to attend at the Coronation. But those who are old enough to be present will be invited, and will wear black velvet suits, silk stockings, and black velvet Glengarry caps like the other boys who may be present at tho ceremony. A youthful Peeress in her own right is tho Baroness, Clifton, who was a baby onlv eighteen months old when King Edward was crowned, and has now attained the dignity of her first decade. She will wear the kirtle. and velvet mantle prescribed for the Peeresses, and her coronet will bo that of her rank, which she will place on her head at the moment of tho Queen's crowning. Tho Baroness Beaumont, another youthful Peeress in her own right, will remember tho Coronation of King Edward, but her robes will no longer fit her, for they were made for a damsel of seven, and the young lady is now nearly seventeen. Tho barony she enjoys is a very ancient one, which lias been in abeyance twice only since the fourteenth century. Queen Victoria called it out of abeyance nine months after the death of the late baron. Lor'd de Clifford, a very tiny baron, aged three 1 only, is among a number of unfortunate children who will be a little toa young to attend the ceremony. It will be remembered that he succeeded nis father in 1909 after the tragic motor accident that made him an orphan. The little Earl of Dumfries, heir of the Marquis of Bute, is a child wlio would be included in the list of invited sons of Peers, but he, too, is only three years old. Still tinier is the Earl of Arundel, the hike of Norfolk's heir, too young, meed, at three, to understand if ho were resent the high importance of his ather's office. Lord Oxmanto'wn, the son of the Earl iid Countess of Posse, is only four. The Marquis of Donegall is another Mid Peer who has held tho marqmsato ince he was quite a.baby, and is now in tis eighth year. His father, who died n 1001, sat in the House of Lords as fciron Fishcrwick. ■ Lord Clonmore, tho Countess of Wickow's son, the Hon. Joan Brand, the eldest daughter of the Viscountess Hauiplen, and the Hon. Monica and the Hon. rohn Wilson. Lord and Lady Nurburnlolme's children, are some years older, ind may receive the Royal command. Thcro were several children present it King Edward's Coronation, and those ivho saw them, round-eyed with wonder, said that tho sight was a very touching \s well as a verv inspiring one. They never wearied, these little ones, never showed the slightest signs of tirmg.