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Show " ROYAL REHEARSALS ' ; London M. A. P. The following amusing scraps of cort, nation gossip nave coma to ma all th - -way from th British legation in Athenai ' "The full dress rehearsals of th coronation corona-tion at th Abbey, though conducted withr much solemnity and decorum, were occa-' sionaily enlivened bv n iwulr inci- . dent At the last rehearsal Cot Brockl-hurst, Brockl-hurst, th well-known equerry, wno waa : taking the part of the king, remarked after af-ter receiving th homage of the archbishop arch-bishop of Canterbury, that the last tim he had come Into close personal contact; with that great man was on the occasion -of his receiving a flogging at his hands at Rugby, some thirty-rive years before. "At another dress rehearsal. Sir Spen-, eer Ponsonby-Fan acted the part of the! king, and caused considerable amusement' when th moment cam for paying horn-! ,1 age. by saying solemnly and In an audi-,. . bla stag whisper to Canon Duckworth o You needn't kiss me." -'r |