DEATH OF QUEEN MAUD
- ♦ FUNERAL SERVICE TO BE HELD IN LONDON (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, November 22. The body of Queen Maud of Norway was to-day conveyed to the private chapel at Marlborough House. A service will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel. King Haakon, Prince Olav, the King and Queen, Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, King George of Greece, and Prince Paul of Jugoslavia will at-, tend the service, which will be conducted by Prebendary Percival, Precentor of His Majesty’s Chapels Royal. ... , , The coffin, at 9.20 a.m., will be placed 'on a horse-drawn guncarriage for conveyance to Victoria Station, and King Haakon and Prince Olav, King George, King George of Greece, the Duke of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, and Prince n> a ul will walk behind the cortege. There will be no military escort and troops will not line the route. The train carrying the coffin will leave Victoria at 10 a.m., arriving at Portsmouth about noon. King Haakon and Prince Olav will travel on the train with the coffin, and at Portsmouth they will go on board the battleship Royal Oak whiph will convey the coffin to Norway. In the House of Lords, tributes were paid to Qiueen Maud 'by Lord Stanhope, Lord Snell, Lord Gainsford, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, after which the House passed a motion of condolence.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22567, 24 November 1938, Page 11
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