EMPIRE MOURNS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 23 November 1925, Page 9

EMPIRE MOURNS.

|)eath of Queen Mother. JRIEF AND TEARS OF LONDON. Parties Unite in Tributes to a Gracious Lady. Queen Alexandra, consort of the late King Edward, and mother of the reigning King, on Friday afternoon at Sandringham. The news, published in the morning papers of that day, that the Queen Mother had stricken the previous morning with an illness, which, at her great age, might have the est consequences, threw England into gloom, and as the day wore on, anxious crowds ted further news. In the late afternoon came the official announcement of her death. The passing of the Queen Mother was peaceful. Queen Mary and the Sing were present me to receive her last look of recognition, which preceded her lapse into the unconsciousness b ended in death. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, hurrying to the bedside by train, were delayed, arrived at the station at Sandringham only to learn there the worst news. The Princes lot see their grandmother alive. The Press of London, of all shades of opinion, joins in glowing tributes to the faultless the active benevolence, the grace and charm of the Queen Mother. All public ceremonies • immediately cancelled, the most important being the great Guildhall banquet, the food ared for which was distributed among the poor of Whitechapel. Flags were half-masted in the City and at the Port of Lyttelton on Saturday morning, yesterday in every church of every denomination references were made to the death of in Alexandra.

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