COMMEMORATION PRAYERS
Service On Sunday. At Sandringham (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m). LONDON, Feb. 7. The new Queen will on Sunday in Sandringham Chapel lead the nation in prayer for King George VI. Special prayers will be offered in all churches at the suggestion of the Archbishop of Canterbury in commemoration of His Majesty, and also asking “that the guidance of Almighty God may be given Queen Elizabeth.” The Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, veiled in heavy mourning, attended Holy Communion at Sandringham this morning. Shortly before 9 a.m. they drove through the main gates of the Sandringham estate for a few hundred yards to the Royal Church of St. Mary Magdalene. They stayed for the halfhour Communion service and then walked back across the grass to their home. Their drive to the church was the first public appearance by the widowed Queen and Princess Margaret since His Majesty’s death. The shops round the Royal estate were closed to-day and black crepe hung on the Royal crests above their doors. At midday to-day a 56-gun saluteone for each year of the King’s lifeboomed out over London and was echoed all over Britain.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26651, 9 February 1952, Page 7
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