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With interesting notes about carriages on verso.Professor Sir Reginald Theodore BLOMFIELD (1856-1942) was a prolific British architect, garden designer and author of the Victorian and Edwardian period.The coronation of George V and his wife, Mary, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and as Emperor and Empress of India, took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on Thursday 22nd June 1911. On 24th June, the King and Queen attended the Coronation Review of the Fleet at Spithead between the naval base of Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight. The Royal Navy had 167 warships in attendance, together with 18 ships from foreign navies; they were arranged in five lines, each 6 miles (10 kilometres) in length, through which the royal party steamed in review, aboard the royal yacht, HMY Victoria and Albert. The crowd of spectators ashore was estimated to number a quarter of a million. On 29th June, the King and Queen attended a thanksgiving service at St Paul's Cathedral