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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13739, 21 May 1910, Page 9

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The coffin will be received at.-Jiew-_N5t door by the .\rcf)bishops of- (Canterbury pnd York, thp Bishop of -*Win~he-ter_ the Dean of WiipJfJor, Canons and Minor Canpnp, lay clerks and choristers of the Chapel''the procession will move up the nave, thc choir chanting tlio opening sentences of the Burial Spryice. Gold Sticks with "white staves qn either side pi the procession will POP-* duct it into the choir, the pari Mar--shal, Lord Steward, and Lord Chamberlain, immediately preceding the coffin. King George's Wreath to be deposited, on the coffin, is a cross of white, Queen Alexandra's is of orchid.;, and Queen Mary's is a wreath of. white nmyAs the coffin rests at the end of the nave, King George, standing at t]ie hejid, PsaJm 90 will he chanted. The hymns will be "Thy-Will be Done" and "Now the Labourer's Task is O'er," aiid the anthems Goss's "I Heard a Voice," and Handel's "His Body is Buried in Peace.''

The Bishop of Winchester will read the Lesson, and the Dean of Windsor tho sentence •"!. heard a voice from Heaven." Thc Archibshop of Canterbury is to rppd the prayers apd pronounce the late King Edward's styles. The Archbishop will pronounce the Benediction, anel Sir Walter Parratt will play the organ solo, Beethoven's "Funeral March" in A flat minor.

As th- sentence "Dust to dust" is pronounced, the coffin will be lowered out of sight into the vault, and afterwards wheeled to its final resting-place upon a massive stqpe table directly beneath the Duke of Clarence's tomb.