Excerpt from History of Religion in England From the Opening of the Long Parliament to 1850, Vol. 8: Church of the First Half of the 19th Century; With a Postscript
William IV. succeeded his brother on the 25th June, 1830; and it was a circumstance illustrative of changed times, as well as of the sovereign"s character, that whereas at the coronation of George IV. the utmost ceremonial splendour was displayed, now, though a queen shared in the solemnity - and, in this respect, Westminster Abbey witnessed a revival of what had not occurred since the crowning of George III. - the coronation was shorn of its ancient glories, there being neither banquet nor the usual procession.
Contemporary excitements account for this. Those who cannot look back over fifty years and recall the condition of England at that period, have no idea of what was going on. The unpopularity of the Wellington administration had just before reached its height. The declaration of the great chief that he would not listen to any proposal for parliamentary reform had agitated the country from the Land"s End to John-o"-Groats, not to speak of the sister isle.
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