PROCESSION OF THEIR MAJESTIES KING EDWARD VII. AND QUEEN ALEXANDRA. THEIR MAJESTIES arrived at the Abbey at eleven-thirty o'clock. On arrival at the West Entrance of the Abbey Their Majesties were received by the Great Officers of State, the Noblemen bearing the Regalia, and the Bishops carrying the Patina, the Chalice, and the Bible. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Connaught, Prince Arthur of Connaught, Prince Charles of Denmark, Prince Christian, and Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein, together with the Peers and others who arrived with Their Majesties, but who did not form part of the following Procession, passed to their seats in the Abbey, accompanied by the Gentlemen in attendance on Their Royal Highnesses. The Ladies of Her Majesty's Household and the Officers of the Royal Household, to whom Duties were not assigned in the Solemnity, passed to the places prepared for them respectively. Their Majesties then advanced up the Nave into the Choir, the Choristers in the Orchestra singing the Anthem, “I was glad when they said unto me, we will go into the House of the Lord," &c. THE PROCEEDING FROM THE WEST DOOR OF THE ABBEY INTO THE Choir. Chaplains in Ordinary: Rev. the Hon. Leonard F. Tyrwhitt, M.A. Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal, Rev. Canon Clement Smith, M.A. Rev. James Edgar Sheppard, D.D. Very Rev. Philip F. Eliot, D.D., Prebendaries of Westminster : Right Rev. Bishop Welldon, D.D. Athlone Pursuivant, Henry C. Blake, Esq. Dean of Westminster : Very Rev. George G. Bradley, D.D. Gerald Woods Wollaston, Esq. March Pursuivant, Unicorn Pursuivant, Carrick Pursuivant, Frank S. Dymoke, Esq. The Union Standard The Duke of Wellington, K.G., G.C.V.O. ; Lord Gerald Wellesley. The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Sir Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, Bart., M.P. The Keeper of the Crown Jewels, General Sir Hugh Gough, G. C. B., C., bearing on a cushion the two Ruby Rings and the Sword for the Offering. The Four Knights of the Order of the Garter appointed to hold the Canopy for the King's Anointing: Earl of Rosebery, K.G., K.T. (P.C.); The Lord Steward of the Household, his Coronet carried by his Page, The Lord Chancellor of Ireland, Lord Ashbourne (P.C.); attended by his Purse-bearer, Hon. Edward Gibson; his Coronet carried by his Page, Hon. Alec. Cadogan. The Lord Archbishop of York, D.D. (P.C.); attended by Eric Maclagan, Esq. The Lord High Chancellor, attended by his Purse-bearer, Edward Preston, Esq.; his Coronet carried by his Page, Viscount Tiverton. The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, D.D. (P.C.); F. C. Temple, Esq. Esq. The Ivory Rod with the Dove, borne by the Earl of Gosford, K.P.; his Coronet carried by his Page, Sydney Herbert, Esq. Sub Officer (Lieutenant Colonel J. G. Sandeman) and The Bishop of Oxford, D.D. attended by Windsor Herald, William A. Lindsay, Esq., K.C. W. Temple, Esq. THE QUEEN'S Regalia. The Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household, Viscount Colville (of Culross), K.T., G.C.V.O.; his Coronet carried by his Page, Charles Alec. Colville, Esq. Her Majesty's Crown, borne by the Duke of Roxburghe, K.T., M.V.O.; his Coronet carried by his Page, Randolph G. Wilson, Esq. THE QUEEN in her Royal Robes, Her Majesty's Train borne by the Duchess of Buccleuch, Mistress of the Robes, assisted by J. N. Bigge, Esq. Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, Everard Green, Esq. The Sceptre with the Cross, St Vincent Harris. Sir W. B. Goldsmith, Knt. The Bishop of Norwich, D.D. Viscount Torrington. The Coronet of the Mistress of the Robes, carried by her Page, David John Scott, Esq. Ladies of the Bedchamber in Waiting, viz. : Five Gentlemen-at-Arms. Henry A. Fletcher) and Adjutant (Lieutenant-Colonel Clerk of the Cheque and Earl de Grey, K.C.V.O. (Treasurer). Rouge Croix Pursuivant, George W. Marshall, Esq. Sceptre with the Cross, borne by the Duke of Argyll, K.T., G.C.M.G., G.Č.V.O. (P.C.), Hereditary Master of His Majesty's Household in Scotland; his Coronet carried by his Page, Ivor Campbell, Esq. Captain the Hon. Seymour Fortescue, C.V.O., C.M.G., Equerry to the King. General Viscount Kitchener, G.C. B., O.M., G. C.M.G.; his Coronet carried by his Page, Julian Grenfell, Esq. Lord Belper (P.C.), Captain of the Hon. Corps of his Coronet carried by his Page, Sidney Greville, C.V.O., C.B. General the Right Hon. Sir D. M. Probyn, G.C.V.O., K.C.B., K.C.S.I., O.C. (P.C.), Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse. Major-General Sir Henry Ewart, K.C.B., K.C.V.O., Crown Equerry. Major-General Sir Stanley de A. C. Clarke, K.C.V.O., C.M.G., Colonel T. Calley, M.V.O., Silver Stick in Waiting. Colonel R. Ellison, Ensign of the Yeomen of the Guard. Captain Houston French, Col. F. B. de Sales La Terrière, Exons of the Yeomen of the Guard. Colonel R. Hennell, D.S.O., Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard. Major E. H. Elliot, Clerk of the Cheque, to the Yeomen of the Guard. Twenty Yeomen of the Guard. Lieut.-Col. Hon. F. Colborne, Exons of the The Standards were handed to the Barons of the Cinque Ports at the entrance to the Choir. |