Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
This was a great day in London and as Travellers
from another nation as well as missionaries of the
Gospel we did not lose the opportunity of witnessing
the opening of the British Parliament
I started in company with
Heber C. Kimball and Dr Copeland and several others for
St James Park where we arrived at 10 o'clock and
found the citizens of London massing by tens of
thousands for the purpose of having a view of her
Majesty as she passed through the Park to the
House of Lords to open Parliament
Long before two o'clock the whole
line from Buckingham Palace through St. James'
Park along Whitehall and Parliament Street leading
to the House of Lords was one continuous mass of
the inhabitants of London. The windows of the
houses all along was ^were^ crowded with fashionable dressed
ladies, in white on Richmond Terrace, and on the steps
at the base of the Duke of York's monument were
immense bodies of people.
It was judged that there
was ^were^ from three to four hundred thousand gathered
on this occasion but notwithstanding this immense
body of people we had the good fortune through
the favour of one of the Queen's Life Guards
to get a place in the front line
Her Majesty started a quarter
before 2 o'clock. The cortege consisted of five
