Temple Bar, Then and Now (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Temple Bar, Then and Now The King of England is not a frequent visitor to "the city" of London, meaning by the city that square mile or so of old London whose political destinies are in the keeping of the Lord Mayor, of which the Bank of England is almost the exact center, St. Paul's the highest ground and Temple Bar the western boundary. It might be said that the King is the only man in England who has no business in "the city." His duties are in the West End - in Westminster, but to "the city" he goes on state occasions, and it so happened that several years ago I chanced to be in London on one of them. I had reached London only the night before, and I did not know that anything out of the ordinary was going on until over my breakfast of bacon and eggs - and such bacon! - I unfolded my Times and learned that their Majesties were that morning going in state to St. Paul's Cathedral to give thanks for their safe return from India. It was not known that they had ever been in any great peril in India, but Royal progresses are, I suppose, always attended with a certain amount of danger, at any rate the King and Queen had reached home safely and wanted to give thanks, according to historic precedent, in St. Paul's, and the ceremony was set for that very morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.