Royal Proclamation - Declaring Queen Elizabeth II's Pleasure Regarding Her Coronation [1952-06-06]
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ELIZABETH R.
WHEREAS We have resolved, by the Favour and Blessing of Almighty God, to celebrate the Solemnity of Our Royal Coronation at Westminster upon Tuesday the Second Day of June next; and forasmuch as by ancient Customs and Usages of this Realm, as also in regard of divers Tenures of sundry Manors, Lands, and other Hereditaments many of Our loving Subjects do claim and are bound to do and perform divers Services on the said Day, and at the Time of the Coronation, as in Times precedent their Ancestors and those from whom they claim have done and performed at the Coronations of Our famous Progenitors and Predecessors, Kings and Queens of this Realm; We, therefore, out of Our Princely Care for the Preservation of the lawful Rights and Inheritances of Our loving Subjects whom it may concern, have thought fit to give Notice of and publish Our Resolution therein; and do hereby give Notice of and publish the same accordingly: And We do hereby further signify, That, by Our Commission under Our Great Seal of the Realm, We have appointed and authorized Our most dearly beloved Husband Philip Duke of Edinburgh; Our most dear and entirely beloved Uncle and most faithful Counsellor Henry William Frederick Albert Duke of Gloucester; The Most Reverend Father in God Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Geoffrey Francis by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England and Metropolitan; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Gavin Turnbull Lord Simonds, Our Chancellor of Great Britain; The Most Reverend Father in God Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Cyril Forster by Divine Providence Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, First Lord of Our Treasury; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Frederick James Lord Woolton, President of Our Council; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, Keeper of Our Privy Seal; Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Bernard Marmaduke Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England; Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Douglas Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, Lord Steward of Our Household; Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy Duke of Beaufort, Master of Our Horse; Our right trusty and right entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Walter John Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry; Our right trusty and entirely beloved Cousin and Counsellor Robert Arthur James Marquess of Salisbury, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State; Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellor George Herbert Hyde Earl of Clarendon, Lord Chamberlain of Our Household; Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellor Albert Edward Harry Meyer Archibald Earl of Rosebery; Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellor Henry Charles Ponsonby Earl of Drogheda; Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellor Rowland Thomas Earl of Cromer; Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellor Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Earl of Athlone; Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellor William Allen Earl Jowitt; Our right trusty and right well beloved Cousin and Counsellor Harold Rupert Leofric George Earl Alexander of Tunis, Our Minister of Defence; Our right trusty and well beloved Cousin and Counsellor Herbert Louis Viscount Samuel; The Right Reverend Father in God Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor John William Charles by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of London; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor William Philip Lord De L'Isle and Dudley, one of Our Principal Secretaries of State; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Samuel Lowry Lord Porter, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Rayner Lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice of England; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor John Clarke Lord MacDennott, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellors Sir David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe; Robert Anthony Eden; Oliver Lyttelton; Antony Henry Head; and James Gray Stuart; five of Our Principal Secretaries of State; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Herbert Stanley Morrison; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Clement Richard Attlee; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Thomas Mackay Lord Cooper, Lord Justice General and President of the Court of Session in Scotland; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Richard Austen Butler, Our Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Our Exchequer; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, Our Private Secretary; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor James Chuter Ede; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Clement Edward Davies ; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Sir Francis Raymond Evershed, Master of the Rolls; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor James Purdon Lewes Thomas, First Commissioner of Our Admiralty; Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor David McAdam Eccles, Our Minister of Works ; and Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Sir James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, Keeper of Our Privy Purse; or any five or more of them to receive, hear, and determine the Petitions and Claims which shall be to them exhibited by any of Our loving Subjects in this Behalf; and We do hereby appoint such of Our said Commissioners as may be summoned for that Purpose to sit in the Council Chamber at Whitehall upon the first convenient Day to be hereafter notified by Publication in the London, Edinburgh, and Belfast Gazettes, respectively, and from Time to Time to adjourn as to them shall seem meet, for the Execution of Our said Commission, which We do thus publish, to the Intent that all such Persons whom it may anyways concern may know when and where to give their Attendance for the exhibiting of their Petitions and Claims concerning their Services before mentioned to be done and performed at Our said Coronation: And We do hereby signify and declare that it is Our Royal Will and Pleasure that such Part only of the Solemnity and Ceremony of Our Royal Coronation as is usually upon the Coronation of the Kings and Queens of this Realm solemnized in Westminster Abbey, shall take place. And We do further by this Our Royal Proclamation signify and declare that We do dispense, upon the Occasion of this Our Coronation, with the Services and Attendance of all Persons who do claim and are bound to do and perform any Services which, according to ancient Custom or Usage, are to be performed in Westminster Hall or in the Procession. And We do hereby further graciously declare that such Dispensation shall not interfere with the Rights and Privileges of any of Our loving Subjects to claim the Performances of such several Services or any of them at any future Coronation. And We do hereby, by and with the Advice of Our Privy Council, declare and make known to all such of Our loving Subjects as it may concern, that it seems good to Us that the Committee of Claims shall, upon the Occasion of this Our Coronation, exclude from their Consideration such Claims as may be submitted to them in respect of Rights or Services connected with the Parts of the Ceremonial in Times past performed in Westminster Hall and with the Procession. And We do, by this Our Royal Proclamation, strictly charge and command all Our loving Subjects whom it may concern that all Persons, of what Rank or Quality soever they be, who either upon Our Letters to them directed, or by reason of their Offices and Tenures, or otherwise, are to do any Service at the tune of Our Coronation, other than Service anciently done and performed in Westminster Hall or in the Procession, do duly give their Attendance at the said Solemnity on Tuesday the Second Day of June next, in all respects furnished and appointed as to so great a Solemnity appertaineth and answerable to the Dignities and Places which every one of them respectively holdeth and enjoyeth, and of this they or any of them are not to fail, as they will answer the contrary at their Perils, unless upon special Reasons by Ourself under Our Hand to be allowed, We shall dispense with any of their Services or Attendances.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this sixth Day of June, in the Year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two, and in the First Year of Our Reign.