Card of the Day: The City’s Submission, Ceremony of the Sword

As we continue through the Churchman Cigarette Company 1935 Silver Jubilee Series, we see another moment from the coronation ceremony. This one is illustrated with a moment from the coronation of King George V whose Silver Jubilee is commemorated by these cards.

This is the moment of the Ceremony of the Sword also known as the Blessings of the Sword. In this part of the ceremony, the king’s sword is blessed and the king takes the same sword from the bishops and girds himself with it. According to the order of the coronation, “After that he shall be clothed with a kingly and stately cloth upon which is woven four square golden eagles.”