Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — A COSTLY CEREMONY. [ARTICLE]

A COSTLY CEREMONY.

Much Good Money Spent on the Corona, tion of King*. The most expensive coronation that ever took place, says London Answers, was that of the present czar of ItUfsia. Upwards of £3,000.000 ; was expended by the government | alone, and .fully another £1,000.000 bv the public authorities of various | llussian towns. The representative! of other powers vied with each other jin lavish outlays, and, counting the sums spent by private persons, the •coronation of Nicholas 11. cannot have cost much lt-fS than £5,000,000. The coronation of t zar Nicholas I. was also a very expensive alfair. The then duke of Devonshire was i the British representative, and spent fully £50,000 of his own money in connection with it. The coronation of Georve IV. was the most expensive of any English monarch, and this only cost £2,500,000. Of this amount, £25,000 was i expended on the coronation robe,ai.d £45,000 on the crown. The cost of the coronation of George 111. did not amount to half that of the coronation of George IV.. William IV. had a profound dislike to pomp and pageantry, and on his accession expressed a desire that the coronation ceremonies should be made as simple and' inexpensive as they could be. The whole cost of the coronation amounted to only £30,000. The coronation of Queen Victoria cost £70,000.