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While Princess Elizabeth was in Kenya, South Africa, on the first
leg of a grand Commonwealth Tour for her ailing father, she received
word of his death. It was February 5, 1952. The King was dead; long
live the Queen!

THE PROCESSIONS

On Coronation Day, June 2, 1953, they counted the times when the
sun broke through the clouds—it was three. In spite of drizzle, down-
pour and thundershowers, perhaps five million people lined the two
procession routes. The first starting at Buckingham Palace went down
The Mall through Admiralty Arch, along Northumberland Avenue,
past Victoria Embankment to Parliament Square and Westminster
Abbey. After the crowning, the procession proceeded up Whitehall
onto Haymarket turned onto Pall Mall to St. James Street and then up
Piccadilly to Hyde Park Corner where it turned onto East Carriage
Drive along Hyde Park, through the Marble Arch to Oxford St. and
then turning again at Oxford Circus onto Regent St. to Haymarket and
then back along The Mall to Buckingham Palace.

This was the Coronation to most. The military parading, the splendor
of royal carriages, the long motorcars, the colorful Guard Regiments,
the prancing cavalry horses, and above all the sight of the 192-year-
old, golden Royal Coach of State drawn by eight grey horses and
escorted by a Duke, an Earl, a Field Marshal, a Major General and two
Colonels of the Guards. Countless loyal subjects and Coronation guests
will treasure for the rest of their lives, a personal smile or acknowledging wave of the hand from the Queen of England or her royal consort.

Preceding the Queen's Coach to the Abbey and back to the Palace
again were magnificent processions headed by the Lord Mayor of Lon-
don's procession followed by the processions of the Speaker of the
House of Commons who rode in the oldest coach of the day antedating
the Royal Coach by sixty years; the members of the Royal Family; the
representatives of over seventy foreign states; the eight Colonial Rulers,
including the only other Queen of the Empire, Her Majesty, the Queen
of Tonga; the ten prime ministers, including the Rt. Hon. Winston S.
Churchill, who served under Queen Victoria; the Princes and Princesses
of the Royal Blood and the famous Glass Coach in which rode the
Queen Mother and Princess Margaret.

Magnificently-trained troops from the far reaches of the Empire—
from South Africa to Hudson's Bay, from, Borneo to Gibraltar; from
the ages past to the present—the medieval Yeoman of the Guard, the
Queen's Bargemaster and Watermen and the later Royal Air Force fly-
past—all these elements of the great Commonwealth displayed in procession a tapestry thread of magnificence, color and excitement unparalleled in modern times.

THE CEREMONY AT THE ABBEY

The pomp and pageantry behind her, Queen Elizabeth entered West-
minster Abbey and walked down the long nave between galleries of
the crimson and ermine robed peers, heads of commonwealth countries,
ambassadors, statesmen and churchmen. The choir sang, "I was glad
when they said to me, We will go into the house of the Lord."

Up the steps of the Theatre, a raised platform built for the ceremony,
past her throne to her Chair of State below the Royal Gallery, she pro-
ceeded, there to kneel in private prayer. Then, in the ceremony of the
Recognition, she stood by King Edward's Chair and faced, in turn, the
four corners of the packed Abbey while the Archbishop, at each corner
of the Theatre, called out, "Sirs, I here present unto you Queen ELIZABETH, your undoubted Queen : Wherefore all you who are come this
day to do your homage and service, Are you willing to do the same?"

Each time the response was, "God Save Queen Elizabeth."

The Archbishop asked, in part, "Will you solemnly promise and
swear to govern the Peoples . . . according to their respective laws and
customs? . . . Will you to your Power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy,

to he executed, m all your judgments? . . . Will you . . . maintain the
Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel?"

The Queen's clear voice affirmed, "All this I promise to do."

The Holy Bible was presented with these words, "Our Gracious
Queen: to keep your Majesty ever mindful of the Law and the Gospel
of God as the Rule for the whole life and government of Christian
Princes, we present you with this Book, the most valuable thing that
this world affords."

Under a canopy of gold cloth held by four knights of the Garter
Queen Elizabeth was anointed on the hands, breast, and head. The
Archbishop made a cross on her head with the holy oil saying, "Be
thy head anointed with holy oil: as kings, princes, and prophets were
anointed."

She was presented with the Spurs of Nobility, then the Sword
of State which she laid on the altar to pledge it to the service of God.
After the delivery of the Orb, and the Coronation Ring, she received
the Sceptre of the Cross, and the Sceptre with the Dove, "the Rod of
equity and mercy."

After the crowning, already described. Queen Elizabeth was escorted
to the Throne of England and at that moment formally took possession
of her realms. The Archbishop was the first to pay homage, then her
husband knelt at her feet pledging, "I, Philip, Duke of Edinburgh do
become your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship; and
faith and truth 1 will bear unto you, to live and die, against all manner
of folks. So help me God."

After the homage of the others had been paid, the •newly-crowned
Queen and Philip knelt through the communion service. '

Then, with the choir singing, and the organ filling the Abbey with
the mighty strains of the National Anthem, Queen Elizabeth II of England, regally robed, carrying all the outward symbols of, royalty and
all the inward graces bestowed by the blessings of God and of her
people left the Abbey bearing the hopes of her 600,000,000 subjects.