| Show UNCROWNED QUEENS Philadelphia Times s 1 I As a rule most English queens have been solemnly crowned whether they reigned in their own right or as wives I of royal husbands hm bands To this rule how however however ever there are exceptions The first J was was Margaret of or C France th i young Youn plain amiable second wife e of Edward EdwardI I He had h d spent so much money noney In 1 t conquering Wales ales and In trying tong to toI I II conquer Scotland that he could not af at afford I I ford the expense of a coronation for I his 1118 girl bride and she be had to do with without I out the splendors of ot the pageant I King Henry Hn VIII took care that An Annie AnnIe nie rile Boleyn Bole n should be bb crowned with extreme extreme ex cx magnificence He desired to t J show sho the world how much he loved her hel herand heland herand and how very much he defied the bish bishop bIshOp bishor op or of Rome The four wives ives who succeeded succeeded suc sue her were never crowned at all For one thing money mone ran short and for another there may ma have haye lurked even een in his masterful mind a sense of or orthe the fitness of things which may have hae I caused him to shrink from publicly I crowning so many ladies ladles in such very verj e rapid succession At any rate the be beloved beloved loved loed Jane Iane Seymour the despised Anne of or Cleves the girlish Catharine Howard and the wary Catharine Parr were never consecrated in public pubU as queen consorts of or England Henrietta Maria wIle wife of Charles L I 1 refused to be crowned She was young oung she was pretty prett she was a French prin res cees and she declined to take fake f ke part in ru ina rua i ia a state sta te fu fun tion which wi 4 1 would compel her to partake of ot the sacrament ac according cording to Church 0 England rites I Sophia ReroUtes Dorothea I Z Zeil cannot be reckoned among the number because she was never neer called tAl QU Queen en of England at all While George I 1 was as being bell crowned and annotated and bored the lady lad of was as pining in her long monotonous captivity Caroline of Brunswick is the last and Host Dost re remarkable remarkable e instance of oC the uncrowned English queens Queen Though George IV had been forced from popular J indignation to give up the bill hilt of pains and rand penalties against her nothing would induce him aim to let t Jer er share his coronation She was c JH nt it al 1 lowed to be present in Westminster abbey at all Repulsed from front all nfl the entrances en ces she returned to her heir home hom to three weeks of Violent fey fever r brought bro on by b months h ot of tearful er ex |
