THE ROYAL CHAPEL.
FIVE BODIES REMOVED. (united ritEss association —by electiiic TELEGBAPH-'-COPYRIGIIT.) (Received October 25th, 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, October 24. Five bodies of less important Royalties were removed from the Royal Mortify Chapel at Windsor, to a special vault at Frogmore. It is stated that two reasons actuated the King, first that t thc vault was becoinlng too full, and second, some of the members of the Royal family had expressed their preference for a burial in the earth to a burial in a vault. In future only sovereigns and those in the direct lino of' succession will be buried in the vault and others of Royalty in new grounds. The "Daily Express" states that three of the bodies that wfere removed were those of the Marquis of Cambridge, Viscount Tfematon, ahd the Duchess of Connaught. Others were near relatives of Royal personages, who were bllfied in recent tihles. —Australian PteSS Association.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19451, 26 October 1928, Page 11
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