MAUNDAY / MAUNDY MONEY Circa 1940's - King George VI of England joins high ranking clergy and Queen Elizabeth his wife (walking behind) for the the annual ceremony of distributing Maundy Money after the a religious service in the Church of England held on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday when the British monarch ceremonially distributes small silver coins known as "Maundy money" as symbolic alms

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