3-053-405 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Coronation of the King and Queen of Sweden and Norway in Trondhjem Cathedral, 1873. 'The two kingdoms of Sweden and Norway are united by the person of their one Sovereign...the King was received by the Bishop of Trondhjem...The Queen was received in like manner...Divine service began, introduced by the first part of a coronation cantata, composed by Lindermann. After several hymns and prayers the Bishop of Hamar preached the sermon, which was...not too long...Sitting upon the throne, the King had the crown placed upon his brow, and received from the hands of the Bishop the sceptre, the globe, and the sword...the King-at-Arms lifted up his staff and exclaimed, "Now King Oscar II. is crowned King of Norway, he and nobody else." The cheers greeting the announcement and the flourishes from the trumpeters had scarcely begun before the Royal salute of 112 guns announced to the crowds outside that the solemn act had been accomplished...the Queen was conducted to the throne, there to undergo the same series of ceremonies...The concluding verses of the cantata brought the act of coronation to its close'. Engraving from a sketch by Mr. C. F. M. Somerset, midshipman of H.M.S. Northumberland. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.