The King Comes Home (1952)

near the little church shall some Mary Magdalene we're so often he worshipped they wait for the King to return to his capital for the last time through the lanes he knew and loved so well they carry him on a gun carriage of the Kings troop Royal Horse Artillery with men of the Kings company of the Grenadier for his escort and behind him walk his brother and his son-in-law here in Sandringham he was born 56 years ago and when his time was come here he returned to die but the little procession reaches wolf attend station and the squire of Sandringham passes into the care of the nation over whom he ruled as king till now he has lain privately in the quiet of the Norfolk countryside but in the heart of empire the nation waits to pay its homage even in death Kings have their duties the Queen the Queen mother and Princess Margaret arrive at the station that was so often the gateway to happiness and rest after long time the train draws out and the King begins his last journey to his capital a hundred miles away in London guards of Honor from the three services take up their position in Palace yard Westminster in the shadow of Parliament close by the Great Hall it is a grey and bitterly cold day now at Kings Cross the Royal train draws in before the Queen his daughter the widowed Queen his wife and Princess Margaret the great ordeal begins the imperial crown with its 3,000 jewels glints in the fitful light as George the sixth returns to his sorrow in capital and with it on the oak coffin is a white wreath of his widow 15 years ago he walked here behind his dead father with no thought of crown or throne a quiet shy man the sank fall that greatness was not to be thrust upon him but fate ruled otherwise through the London streets where so often the eager crowds are cheered the procession winds its silent way this is London's day of mourning across Trafalgar Square towards Whitehall to the Wrights leads the road to the palace which will see him no more today the King rides down Whitehall towards Westminster and here where for so many years he led our yearly tribute to the nation's dead we shall remember the king who was good the king who gave His life in unsparing service to his people and so to Westminster this journey's end across the way in the old Abbey he was crowned king now here in the Great Hall he will receive the last tribute of his peoples his mother his widow and his daughter three queens watch as the court age nears the doors of Westminster not long ago great fanfare sounded when lasts George the sixth entered to open his new House of Commons within today lords and Commons wait in silence and in the Great Hall a guard watches over the sleeping king

Channel: British Pathé

Views: 452,304

Keywords: stations, Countess, Magdalene, Sandringham, Philip, Snowdon, footage, trains, Troops, coffins, churches, II, Palace, King's, BritishPathe, Royal, Artillery, Yard, of, Reuters, Ben, Big, Prince, Queen, British Pathe, royalty, Grenadiers, Princess, funerals, Westminster, 52/014, Norfolk, Bowes-Lyon, Cross, Mary, Horse, Margaret, Cenotaph, Elizabeth, Duke, newsreel, Edinburgh, crowds, Mother, documentary, 11.12

Id: mRvQ25Jcnrk

Length: 5min 48sec (348 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 13 2014