REHEARSAL AT THE ABBEY
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Royal Dukes Repeat Oath of Homage TIMED BY ST0P WATCH
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(Received 23, 12,55 p.m.) LONDON, April 22. The Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, used a stop-wateh to time Corona•tion rehearsals in Westminster Abbey, the second of which was attended by the Duke and Duchees of Gloucester and the Duke and Duchess of KenL The Duke of Gloucester, who as senior Duke of the Royal Family, will kneel before the King, knelt before the place the King will occupy. The Duke of Kent knelt nearby in the section reserved • for peers. Both repeated the words of the oath of homage. The King has directed that a personal message of sympathy and goodwill be sent to ex-eervicemen in hospitals throughout the Empire on the oecasion of the Coronation.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 5
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