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coronation supplement taxpayers dont bear royal household costs income from duchy of cornwall greatly exceeds annual expenses the civil list as the authorized payments to the royal household are called provide an annual sum of 475000 to meet the cost of what is probably one of the most complicated organizations in the world it looks like a lot of money but since the value of the pound has more than halved since the days of king edward vii who received 470000 it is clear that the present sovereign must make do on half the original income the next point to be perfectly clear about is that this sum is not personal income it maintains not simply a per sonal home but a complex smoothlyrunning organization which is a vital and valued part of the commonwealth her majestys household is a broad general term embodying the state and constitutional-machinery- that re volves around the sovereign the select committee which recently reported on the civil list commented in fact on the enormous increase m the scope and burden of the sov ereigns duties royal visits within britain itself are in numerable they give great pleasure and are an important part of a queens duties the number of public functions increases there are more official visitors to receive for instead of only one commonwealth government there are now several whose members have the right to be received when they visit britain the number of ambassadors ac credited to the court of st james grows larger every year with the decreasing value of money the late king george effected many economies and the select committee agree that there is no scope for further saving not only is the royal household run with an economical efficiency which some business houses might well envy but considering its complexity and heavv responsibilities it costs extraordinary little it is far less than the cost of a battleship it costs less in a year than the british people gamble in a single week it is less than half the gross income of two famous english dukes and a mere pittance com pared with the fabulous personal incomes of some eastern poteti tates whose names are not even known to the man in the street revenues from duchy the value of a monarchy such as ours cannot of course be mea sured in terms of cash what is not generally understood however is that in point of fact the british taxpayer does not pay a penny to wards the expenses of the royal household the queen who is en titled to the revenues of the duchy of cornwall foregoes that income presenting it to the exchequer and receiving instead a grant by way of the civil list now the income from the duchy of cornwall and from crown lands amounts to a total of 1 212000 far from costing the na tion 470000 a year therefore the queen in fact makes the nation a present of very much more than that how does the money go the estimates are 1 her majesty s pnvy purse 60 000 salaries of her majesty t household 186 000 expenses of her majestys household 121300 royal bounty alma and special services 13200 supplementary provision 95 000 coamnents of household of what does the household consist t one can hardly define it precisely because some of the sov ereign s servants while an import ant part of the entourage do not actually live at the palace others hold of ce by tradition but in prac tire have little connection with the court household for instance includes the keeper of the jewel house st the tower of london and the yeomen of the guard are equally royal senants broadly speaking the royal household consists of a number of departments each with a bead some servants whose office is of extreme antiquity and who figure in the most important of functions are not paid anything but a notn inal wage the heralds for in stance whose office goes back to norman times and who figure in proclamation the state opening of parliament and suchlike occa smns receive for their highly dec orative duties only a few pounds a veir less than an energetic char women can earn in britain nowa da s by scrubbing floorv simi lsrty many servants give their service free atid are proud and glad to do it- treasury expert luckily for the present queen sir tltck alexander recentlv ap pointed keeper of the pnvy purse and treasurer to the queen has hrld that post since 191c and has served the roval family in vary ng rapacities for over to years looking alwav immaculate and less than his 64 years he is even tempered a brilliant administrator nd has handled the finances of the palace so expertly that the public were unaware that balanc ing up was often not an easy task sir uhck is enormously popu tar with the palace staff his good humour and competence help them to sohe all problems his irish ancestry and his background eton sandhurst service with the coldstream guards in egypt and palestine political secretary to the earl of athlone while gover norgeneral of the union of south africa have combined to make of him the perfect royal servant works of famous poets composers get public preview twelve songs for the corona tion written by britains most dis tinguished composers and poets will be heard for the first time on june 1 at the royal festival hall london composers include ralph vaugh an williams sir arthur bliss john ireland sir george dyson and richard artie poets whose work is being set to music include walter de la mare edith sitwell stephen spender cecil day lewis and henrv reed big ben h worlttt bent known clock towering high above westmin ster 320 feet above the members of parliament below is the best known clock in the world big ben it figures in million of pic ture postcards thousands of paint ings innumerable new sreels and press photographs its chimes have been broadcast b the bbc eer since as an experiment they were used to nng out the old year on december 11 1923 and nng in the new and the scheduled news bul letins in britain they are broad cast foh time a day in ovempas t ran missions world hears chioes t the coronation too this 3 vearold clock will have its vital pari to play hundreds nf thous ands of spectators will watch its giant hands as the hour of the arrival of the royal procession at the bbey draws nearer the whole world will hear its chimes as it tones in to hear of the great event nd londoners especially will feel for big ben a renewed affec bon for them the clock is a svm bol of the dignitv nd romance of a great citv the coronation chair nude of oak in 1300 tsol has been used at eery coronation for the crowning or anointing of the monarch since the coronation of edward ii the chair is s f t 9vt inches high and when first node was enriched with gilt gesso decorations and glass mosaics in the 17th and 18th centuries the chair was grevwusly mutilated but some of the original decoration remains the coronation chair rests on fonr lions the seat is made to slide in and out and in the space beneath rests the stone of scone the coronation stone ia a roughly cut rectangular hewn block of coarsegrained reddish grey sandstone 26i inches by 18 inches by 11 inches thick it was placed near the shrine of edward the confessor in westminster abbey before being incorporated in the coronation chair warriors will escort the queen on entry into westminster abbey by peter wildeblood london daily mail the men who led britain s fighting forces in the war have been chosen to walk beside the queen when she enters westminster abbe on coronation day in january the earl marshal announced the names of those who have been chosen for the queens procession- names which were made famous on the battlefields of burma of france of the western desert in the air and at sea the chief honour of walking in front of the queen carrying the st edwards crown has been given to admiral of the fleet viscount cunningham war tune commander inchief mediterranean and first sea lord his appointment as lord high steward is made for coronation day alone field marshal viscount montgomerj of alamein will carrv the royal standard the sceptre with the cross which contains one of the largest diamonds in the world will be borne b marshal of the raf viscount portal tfho was head of bomber command and chief of the air staff during the war the office of lord high constable of england which was carried out at three successne coronations b the great duke of wellington has been given to field marshal vis count alanbrooke the war time chief of the imperial general staff he will walk in the procession beside the earl marshal the duke of norfolk the standard of ireland the orb a golden globe ur procession travels historic route continued from page 6 by dull northumberland avenuo to the embankment and to par ha ment square and so to west minster abbey on her return from the abbey the crowned queen comes by storied whitehall past the banquet hal which inigo jones built for james i and from which james s son charles i stepped to the scaffold past downing street where premiers live and past all thj chief ministries on through trafalgar square again nnd on to our most gregarious male streets pall hall st james s street and piccadilly where ixmdons chief clubs hive and mildly buix many exclusive clubs in i all mall the chief clubs aro the athenaeum the travellers the reform the united sen ice the oxford and cambridge the united universities and the milborough founded the sa bv hdward vii when prince f wales be cause he was not allowed to smoke at whites the largest is the royal automobile and neir it stands the blitzed shell that was the carlton thtso lav monaster les compose a street unique in the world and the most ntntely char actemtic thoroughfare in london st jnmosfl strett with its palace at the bottom and holl im s seem ly brooks r club whiu n lub the oldest club and b mdli s with its elegant f unlike front nnd others may dispute this the street has also a bootmaker whose wares al most establish your social status and a wine merchant whose great scales have weighed and kept the records of royalties peers and notable folk for 200 years stately buildings piccadillv with the green park bowenng one side at its western end its happy undulation that so enlivens its distance its hotels and club buildings and old family man sions now nearly all offices ending in apsley house where the duke of wellington lived and now is his museum is londons most charming street and so north by the east carnage way of hydo park alongside park lane that la becoming the boulevard of fashion able hotel life to the marble arch that once stood in front of buckingham palace a show street then eastward by oxford street with its vast shop nnd hinterland of eminent squares and streets at oxford circus the procession moves south down regent street one of the few london show streets that were designed aa whole it was built as a grand driveway for the prince regent to use in his outings from his carl ton house to his new regent park it was rebuilt between the wan fronted with portland stone am leads to that centre of london rejoicing piccadilly circus with aa its centre fros on his fountain pauses theatres the route then wends south through haymarket where are london s most ancient and prim meat shnpfront a snuffmakers nnd its prestige theatre the hay market an well an beerbohm tree s her majest s then past orwa house and the massive canada hnu to trafalgar square through a dm i rait arch ind the crowned queen drives ilong the mall again past queen ictnrtn n her rnorble throne and so home to the palace with the neclamitions of the nition ringing aid sounding nmund her mounted bj a jewelled crosi will be earned into the abbev by field marshal earl alexander of turn mediterranean supreme command er at the end of the war others in the procession who of the dymoke familv acted as kins s champion hr had the right to appear fulh armed and on horseback at the banquet after the coronation and challenge to mortal combat an one i who dared to gainsay the sov ereign s nght to the crown this p c urcsque custom was afterward given distinguished sen ice abandoned together with the ban to their country are lord de quet and the d mokes have since lisle and dudley vc who will then been given a lew colourful carrv the standard of ireland 1 pan m the celebration and three holders of the military cross the earl of derby carrying another hereditary nght to take the standard of england vis- prl in the procession u that of is count julendale and earl fortes count dudhope who will bear the cue who a knightu of the garter standard of scotland as his fore- will hold the golden canopy over bears the scrymogeour wedder the queen dunne the anointing j burn the first name means a ceremony good fighter- have done for renerations tbe lnion standard will be borne in the procewon by captain g th km charles 1 j l m dymoke whose ancestors i these men with other represent have taken part in coronations stives of the church the nobilit since the 14th centurj id to the and the orders of chivalry will be coronal on of george i the head bv th queen mde when she en lh es of queens basis for pageant in english village a pageant based onftpisodes in the lives of the eight queens who hae ruled england will be pre sented in a garden at the village of headley in hampshire dunng the coronation month of jane headlev is 4fi miles south of london ten by the west door of the ab bev while the choir sings the 122nd tvalm a tbey hare s th nation of charles i i was glad when thev said unto me we will go into the house of the lord and when the ceremony is fin ished they will escort their queen now weanng the ghttenng imperial crown and carrying a sceptre in each hand out into the bell load i streets where her people are wait in to greet flicabrth the second