King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with their daughters Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose after the coronation in 1937. And at some point, the ceiling just starts raining molten wax,” said Farris. “They have got thousands of candles lighting this event, but the drip pans underneath the candles are not big enough. George himself, eager to let the people see his magnificent regal attire, kept walking ahead of the barons meant to hold the canopy above him, so they had to keep running after him.īut the real fun started at his lavish banquet, said Farris, with over 2,000 guests packed into Westminster Hall, watched by thousands more seated on tiered stands, in heat so oppressive people started to faint. But so many things went wrong.Ĭaroline of Brunswick, from whom he was separated, tried to get into the abbey but was barred. George wanted to outdo Napoleon, whose ceremony a few years previously had been judged magnificent. George IV’s coronation, in 1821, was by all accounts the most opulent and extravagant of all, and would be the last coronation banquet. Everything ran late, and by the time the Archbishop came to deliver his sermon, it was drowned out by the clatter of cutlery and tinkling of glasses as hungry peers fell to eating mid-service, according to Lloyd. No one could find the Sword of State, so they improvised, borrowing the Lord Mayor’s pearl sword. Photograph: Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone addresses one of the most pivotal issues of our time, facing it head-on in a voice that is both nostalgic and frightening.The coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes.
Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: "Erpenbeck will get under your skin" (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, "one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation" (The Millions).
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