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Queen Mother's Position in the Procession
Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:11:09 -0600
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At Queen Elizabeth II's coronation procession, where was the Queen Mother
placed? Is there a full listing of who was where?
atsarisborn...
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According to the pictures, she was sitting in a box with Charles and
Anne, overlooking the sacring.
mrelliottca...
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Not any picture that was actually taken of the Coronation. The present
Princess Royal was too young to attend, being not quite 3 at the time.
She wasn't there.
In the carriage procession to and from the Abbey, she came at the end
of the royal carriages, in the Irish State Coach, with Princess
Margaret.
Laurence...
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CARRIAGE PROCESSION TO THE ABBEY
1) The Lord Mayor of London's Procession
2) The Speaker of the House of Commons (in the Speaker's Coach)
3) Motor-Car Procession of Members of the Royal Family and of Royal and
Other Representatives of Foreign Powers
4) Carriage Processions of Colonial Rulers
5) Carriage Procession of Prime Ministers
6) Carriage Procession of Members of the Royal Family
7) CARRIAGE PROCESSION OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER
First Division Captain's Escort of the Household Cavalry
In the Glass Coach
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret
Second Division Captain's Escort of the Household
Cavalry
One State Landau conveying Suite
8) Her Majesty's Royal Progress to the Abbey
9) Her Majesty The Queen
His Royal Highnes The Duke of Edinburgh
In the State Coach
Source: The Coronation Programme of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth
2 June 1953
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Don Aitken...
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The older tradition was that the widow of the new monarch's predecesor
did not attend; hence the inconspicuous position.
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There was, after all, no official place for any of them. (They didn't
even need to be present.)
Jean Coeur de Lapin
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