CORONATION DATE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 314, 21 December 1936, Page 6

CORONATION DATE.

NOW PROCLAIMED. Pageantry Of Heralds In London. Press Association—Copy Tight. London, December 19. With a repetition of last, week’s Pageantry heralds to-day proclaimed the coronation date, May 12,, and announced the appointment of H.R.H. the Duke of Gloucester to serve on the Coronation Claims Committee. The procession followed the customary route from St. James’ Palace to the City . Except for references to “the coronation of our beloved consort,” the proclamation followed the text of the proclamation of King Edward’s coronation on May 28.

The King has assumed the colonel-cy-in-chief of the Life Guards, the Horse Guards, the Royal Artillery, the Royal Engineers and the five infantry regiments of Guards, the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, to date from December 11, colonelcy-in-chief of the Royal Marines, the rank of Field Marshal and of that of Marshal of the Royal Air Force, with effect from December 11.

Their Majesties and the Princesses are spending the week-end at. Royal Lodge, Windsor. This is the first occasion that the Queen has driven out since accession.

Queen Mary; a lone figure at a window of Marlborough. House, watched the coronation proclamation at St. James’ Palace.