A SHORT time before the coronation of King George V an idea was conceived by Mr. Donald, of the Daily Chronicle, that the members of the Senefelder Club, of which Mr. Joseph Pennell was the president, could take part in the celebration of that event by making a series of lithographs commemorative of some of the incidents connected with it. Mr. Jackson was selected to make a drawing of the Queen, and I of the King.
After some negotiations with the chamberlain, sittings were agreed to, and I received a note from Sir William Carrington to call at Buckingham Palace. I found Sir William in his very simply furnished office on the ground floor, where he instructed me how to proceed when His Majesty made an appointment. In due course the command came to attend at the Palace at eleven o'clock one morning. Sir William received me smilingly, and said, "I will conduct you to the room where you will work. The King may come in before noon. You should address him as 'Your Majesty' and see to it that you do not detain him more than twenty minutes, the time allowed"; and, as a final admonition, "Do not talk politics to him."
I was then left alone in a large central room on the second floor in the centre of the Palace and overlooking the avenue leading to Trafalgar Square. Immediately in front was the Memorial to Queen Victoria, by Brock. As
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