I thought I'd mention that the second picture, of the fan presentation is also of a scene at the French Embassy ball on the night of the Kokohda field disaster.
N & A came to the ball at around 10pm and entered to the strains of "a life for for the tsar" (you can see the singers in the background) and was presented with this fan by the Ambassador and his wife.
It was a miserable "state" night for N & A and turned out to be the low point of the coronation ceremonies with everyone at the ball giving them funny looks and the only thing people could talk about was the disaster earlier in the night, though you wouldn't guess from the pictures.
These postcards make a very interesting souvineer of the coronation, and you can still sometimes pick them up on eBay, though I've never seen the Nicholas (?) Hall entry picture anywhere except in a book published by the Orthodox church as a memorial to the coronation years ago.
