PRESS TRIBUTES.

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

PRESS TRIBUTES.

"FRIEND OF ALL NATIONS.'* OPINION UNIFIED. i \AUS7EAXJAS A.VD S.Z. CAJUB ASSGCUTIOS.) (Received November 2*2 nd, 5.5 *fin.) LONDON, November 21. Every shade of political opinion lias been brought to unanimity by the death of Queen Alexandraj as was typified in the messages received. Mr Ramsay MaeDonald said: "The whole country will be sorrowful at the death of the Queen Mother, who has | been so long with us. She was so intimately concerned with thenational iifo thab every household felt an intimate kinship with her because of the good and kindly deeds, and human appeal she made to all. In an unusual, impersonal way she,had entered into relations with her people.'' "The Times" says: "People all over the Empire will be moved, many to tears, at the end of the reign of affection which lasted over sixty years. Site alone, of all consorts from abrond, was never thought of as a foreigner." The "Morning Pos-t" says: "It was her happy fortune to reign in the. hearts of her people, to stand aloof from politics and statecraft, and be the friend of all natiorts."' The "Daily Herald" says: "She was a good wife and mother, femininely kind and thoughtful for others." The "Westminster Gazette"' says: "The esteem in which her family is held in these days of tumbling crowns.is a tribute to her wise and careful upbringing." The "Daily Mail" says: "The influence of such a character survives the grave and the severance of death/' The "Daily Telegraph" says: "As Florence Nightingale lives in history as 'The Lady of the Lamp,' so Queen Alexandra may bo remembered as the 'Lady with the open heart.' " The "Daily News" says: "She leaves a memory of a personality so gracious and winning that it lingers in the mind even of those who only saw, her' pass in the street." Ilij "Daily Express" states: "Her spell was lasting because she never lost her rare power of identifying herself with the popular emotion and senti-' meat." The "Daily Chronicle" says: "She retained about her, almost to the last, an atmosphere of a fairy tale of Royalty, such as rarely attaches in au equal de- j gree to the modern crowned head." LAST RITES. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. j BURIAL BESIDE KING EDWARD. (Beceived November 23rd, 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. The King, arriving at Sandringham House, a bowed figure, with face pale and eyes heavy with grief, paused, and spoke consolingly to the gardeners sweeping the park walk. Later, with the Queen and Koyal Family, he attended a sirifple and touching service in the death chamber, ■whereafter the servants and tenants wero invited to view' the body, which lies in a bed covered with a pale pink' crepe de chine coverlet, on which arc a few. bunches of flowers.' The hands arc crossed on the breast, and are holding a cruciix. The Body will immediately be placed in thejittnermost shell of three caskets, whieljr the foreman carpenter at Sandringham House is constructing of wood grown, on the estate. The second will be leaden, and the outermost oaken. It is expected that a sarcophagus enshrining King Edward and Queen Alexandra will eventually be erected at Windsor.. Lord Cromer visited the King and disefcasaed tho funeral arrangements. It is understood that the coffin will be removed to Sandringham Church to-morrow, their Majesties attending the memorial service. Tho coffin will rest in the church until November 26th, when it will be privately removed to London and taken to the Chapel Royal at St. James's j Palace. . To the Abbey. A procession will convey the coffin to Westminster Abbey on November 27th, where the first part of the funeral service will be held at 11.30 J a.m. The public will be admitted in the afternoon. The coffin will be removed, in the evening without ceremonial, to Windsor, where it will rest the night in j the Albert Memorial Chapel. A committal service will be held at 11.30 a.m. on November 28th, only the Royal Fanily and Queen Alexandra's household attending- The remains will rest in the Memorial Chapel, and will be eventually placed in the crypt at St. George's Chapel beside King Edward. Sandringham residents will watch beside -the coflin until its removal to London. Their Majesties and family enshrining King Edward and Queen Alexandra will eventually be erecteo. at Windsor. The public will walk in the procession to Sandr;*igham Station. The coffin will he carried on a gun-carriage covered with the Anglo-Danish colours only. Troops will be employed to line the route to St. James Palace and Westminster Abbey. The Will. Queen Alexandra's will, in accordance with custom % will not be published. _lt it understood that the King and' Colonel Sir Henry Streatfeiid are among the executors, who have already decided to wind up the Sandringham estates. The residents are wondering what will happen to.two sacred rooms at Sandringham House. One was tho Duke of Clarence's and still remains as when the Duke died. The other is Prince John's, containing the toys used before -his death. Queen Alexandra often went, into these rooms alone and stayed for an hour. Court Mourning. It is officially announced that the Court will be in mourning for two months, and one month in half mourn-