If the third Baron Sackville had not lent two chairs to the Office of Works for the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, and if his daughter, the well-known broadcaster, the Hon. V. Sackville-West, then a girl of nineteen, had not happened to sit next to the head of the Office of Works at a dinner party and shot a bow at a venture with all the courage of youth, she would never have witnessed the Coronation Service of 1911. Her description, as one would expect from a winner of the Hawthornden Prize, will be distinguished by its literary quality in presenting a picture of a ceremony exactly the same in detail and significance as the one that takes place tomorrow, although coaches bringing peers and peeresses to the Abbey were many and motors were few.