Well, it is after the Coronation as write, "The tumult and the shouting have died, the captains and the kings "have thankfully departed. Hundreds of thousands have painfully. tuneramped themselves {rom the for turing stands, or the damp edges of pavements where they have roosted hight. Peeresses let out] and telephone excuses for this evening's engagements, Judges, sheriffs, councillors, cast off their wigs, gold braid, knee breeches, and ut their feet up, 'Still, of course, there is the, Nood-Ughting. For a' week or fortnight, I forget which, the patient Royal Family will appear nightly at the: windows of Buckingham Palace as the crowds surge slowly, shouting mightily, round the railings of the courtyard.
But the Coronation is over and in some way everything shows it. Some subtle change has come over the very decorations. A few hours ago they were like young things growing. up, looking forward to a glorious moment. Suddenly. ike woods and gardens after the first autumn. frost, wad. they look old and. useless, One ware while they stayed peacefully at home managing their estates, 'The Fest of us have been so thoroughly upheaved, that it may' seem question when we shall ever settle down to ordinary life again, "Actual there ig "no difleulty. "We have made our demonstration because we wanted {o, but. we cannot always remain on' the heights and the moment was enough for our purpose, The universality and spontaneity of the demonstration sprang from a very deep and sure instinct, Ever Since the English people became conscious of themselves as a nation, that is about the time of the Wai of the Roses, they have been true the idea of kingship. 'The exceution of Charles Twas regarded, by all' but the. blunderers who ordered it, with horror. "We got rid of the Siuarts because they were impossible, Dut not of the King. We endured the Hanoverians on principle and by the Tight of their descent 'But with the first Jubilee of Queen Victoria, the monarchy assumed that personal identity with all of us which we must always unconsciously have desired for it, and this realization of the Sovereign' by each of his subjects has grown continually more and more vivid, Hence the terrific shock caus ed by the abdication of Edward VIII fand hence. too the. spontaneous. solve of everyone that his successor's Coronation should be so celebrated as to be at once an encouragement to him and an assurance to ourselves hat the monarchy remained as un= shakeable as ever
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