A THANKSGIVING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1168, 1 July 1911, Page 5

A THANKSGIVING.

KINO A QUEEN AT ST, PAUL'S

Br Telenrapb—Press Association—Copyiieht London, Juno 29. • Amid bright sunshine, King fceorgo and Queen Mary, following tho precedent set by King Edward alter his Coronation in IUO2, to-day proceeded from Buckingham Palaco to St. Paul's Cathedral, to attend a thanksgiving service. Great crowds lined the streets to watch the procession. Their Majesties afterwords wore entertained at the Guildhall, 700 guests being present. £' Tho Royal Party returned by way of North London. Seventeen thousand troops wero posted along the route of the Royal procession. The colonial visitors wero stationed in the Mall. Facilities wero given to schoolchildren and afflicted persons to witness the pageant. Tho Prince of Wales and Princess Mary accompanied their parents. Lord Kitchener rode beside the State landau. Fifty seats wero assigned to Nonconformist representatives in St. Paul's Cathedral. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, Sir Joseph and Lady Ward, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, and General Botha were prominent among the invited guests at the Guildhall. They received an ovation in passing through the,city. DOMINIONS' CONGRATULATIONS. (Rec. June 30, 10.15 p.m.) London, Juno 30. The Colonial Office has published congratulatory Coronation messages from Now Zealand, tho Commonwealth, and tho Australian States. BRITISH MONARCHS AT ST. PAUL'S. A RETROSPECT. In proposing to attend a thanksgiving service in St. Paul's Cathedral within a few days of his Coronation the King is following tho example of his father, King Edward. Although it had not previously been tho custom for the Sovereign to visit St. Paul's immediately after tho Coronation, there had, of course, been many previous Royal visits to the Cathedral—both to the old church which was destroved in tho Great Firo of 1666 and to tho present building. It was ,in • St. Paul's that Henry VI celebrated in H5» tho reconciliation between the Houses of York and Lancaster. In 1-JGI the same Monarch ratified in tho Cathedral tho succession of tho Duke of York to the Throne. The marriage- of Arthur Princo of Wales and Katherino of Arragon was celebrated at St. Paul's in 1501. In 15H King Henry VIII received in the Cathedral a Cap of Maintenance from the Pope, and in tho following year the King celebrated tho Proclamation of Peace and tho betrothal of Princess Mary to tho Dauphin. In 1620 King James attended public worship in State with the Lord Mayor and Corporation. Charles I visited the Cathedral frequently, and after tho fire in 1G67, Charles I worshipped in a temporary chancel among the ruins. In the New Cathedral. The new Cathedral was first used for service in 1097 to celebrate the Peaco of Ryswick, but William 111 was not proson t. Queen Anno went to St. Paul's in solemn procession on several occasions to commemorate tho victories, of the allied troops on the Continent. In 1759 George Til was present at a national thanksgiving service for his Tecovcry from illness, and in 1797 ho went with members of the Houses of Parliament to celebrate the naval victories over the French, Spanish, and Dutch. Tho Burial Service of Nelson was attended by George TV (then Prince of AVales) and all tho Princes of the Blood. Tho Prince Consort camo in procession with all tho Princes of :the Royal Family in 1852 for tho funeral of tho Duko of Wellington. Tn 1872 Queen Victoria attended at St. Paul's, together with all her family, to hold a national thanksgiving for tho recovery of the Princo of Wales (the late King Edward) from his serious illness, and in 1397 she returned thanks at the west steps of tho Cathedral for the celebration of her Diamond Jubilee.