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Show CORONATION FESTIVITIES' London, Mn 30. The festivities connected with the coronation begin this week, which will be a very busy ono socially. . The king and queen, Prince of Wnles, Duke and Duchess of Connaught and other members of the royal family attended a grand coronation coucort given last night by the combined forceb of the Albert Hall Choral society, numbering nenr-ly nenr-ly 1,000 voices, and the Royal Amateur Ama-teur Orchestral society, aaslated by Louise Klrkby Limn and other operatic oper-atic singers, under the leadership of Sir Frederick Bridge and Arthur Payno. Tho audience numbered many thousands and Included a large number num-ber of coronation visitors Tho king has paid an unprecedented honor to tho labor movement by a "commnnd Invitation to two representatives represent-atives of trades unions to attend tho coronation ceremonies. After the concert last night, the klug and queen and tho royal party attended at-tended Lady Farquahar's ball, which was given In honor of the Duke ot Fife's dnughters, the Princesses Alexandra Alex-andra and Maud. The king and some of the royal princes will attend the Epsom race mooting dally until Friday. The queen will nl3o attend the meeting on Wednesday for the derby, which promises prom-ises to be a very brilliant affair. This will be the first time tho king and queen havo witnessed the derby. The Weather continues Ideal and summorllko. |