CROWNED "IN REVERSE"
Queer Incident at CoroQation of Edward VII.
ARCHBISHOP'S ERROR (Eeceived 5, U.30 e.m.) LONDON, Feb. 4. How King Edward VII. was crowned back to front was related by Mr Lawrence Tanner, Keeper of Muniments, Westminster Abbey, in a gpeech at Westminster. He said that the crown was handed oyer with difficulty by the Deau of Westminster to the equally aged and infirm Archbishop of York. H was feared for one terrible pioment that the Archbishop would drop it, as the crown shopk above the King's head. However, the. Archbishop got it on, though it was back to frpnt, hut it did not matter because everyone was thankful that the crown was actually on.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 5
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116CROWNED "IN REVERSE" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 18, 5 February 1937, Page 5
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