... Lullingstone Silk Farm in Compton House, Sherborne, Dorset. Silk for the ceremonial robes worn by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at their Coronation in 1937 came from the farm. So did the material for the wedding dresses of The Queen, Princess Margaret ...

... Almost the first words spoken to the people by King George VI included a reference to the unity of the British Commonwealth. And now the Imperial Conference is meeting. Very impressive, on Coronation night, were the messages of loyalty from all parts of ...

... Mother. In a volume of 100 pages, each threesixteenths of an inch square, Gunner wrote a 3,000-word account of the Coronation of George VI, completing some 300 words on each page •••••••••••••••••• • • Od-Ad • From F. RALPH, Ley- • • bourne - road, Lon- ...

... CHARLES FAWCUS Epgom's Coronation Cup yesterday, when Crow certainly put Balmerino and Smuggler in their places. Wildenstein said: It will be difficult to keep up the record against Acamas an d Shirley Heights in th e King George VI and Qreen Elizabeth ...

... being Queen as an ordinary job from which she could retire and collect her pension. What credibility would the centuries-old coronation rites of her successor possess if they were prompted, not by death, but by a desire to stop working ? As Elizabeth II pets ...

... Mick, 14 bar. Mecca: 4 Morans Beef, 8 Rugged Mick, Hong Kong Mike, One To Note, 12 bar. RAINBOW QUEST is napp to win the Coronation C .40) at Epsom today a ow that he is going to be 'or force in the top mile a half races this season. As a three-year-old ...

... three-year- George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes and the Eclipse Stakes. An ambitious racing programme has been mapped out for Tulyar for the new Flat season. Britain's No. 1 miler gets mile invitation from U.S. If he does run during Coronation year he will ...

... mantle will be incorporated in the making. • The cloth-of-gold robes are likely to be the same as those used for the Coronation of King George VI. - • • • _. • -- JANE . . . WE SEEM TO 14A\/E. REACI-lED THIS PART OF 'TI-IE. MAP, JANE I II d ...

... Sun Ruler, Novento. Infatuation, Rokimos, Roccamare, Coronation Year, and Ambler II (all carry 9st.). The Queen's horses. AUREOLE and LANDAU. have been entered for Ascot's £25.000 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes over a mile and a half on Saturday ...

... arranges his George VI and British Empire collection . . . I print the name of each country at the head of its first page, then insert a map of the country and underneath give a brief account of the country's history. Below this I mount the Coronation Set. ...

... Racing Mirror Course Correspondent AN owner's superstition prevented Joe Mercer from riding Nagami, winner of yesterday's Coronation Cup at Epsom. Nagami, owned by Mrs. Etti Plesch, wife of Hungarian merchant banker Arpad Plesch, was ridden by Lester Piggott ...

... Write to: The Old Codgers, Daily Mirror, 33 Holborn, London ECIP 1D . ter the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in May, 1937. A.W.O.L. Mr G. DUNNE, Durning Road, Norwood, Lon- - don, SE, writes: THE phrase to take French leave means to ...