TRIBUTES TO THE KING

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26659, 19 February 1952, Page 7

TRIBUTES TO THE KING

MEMORIAL SERVICES IN BRITAIN LONDON, February 17, Memorial services to King George VI were held in the great cathedrals and tiny village churches of Britain to-day. _ .. „ The service at St. Paul s, London, was broadcast and televised. The Archbishop of Canterbury preached the sermon. He said: “Does not everything—our memory of a good King, our devotion to our young Queen, our nation’s greatness, and its need—does not all this call us to a new, united youthful reformation of manners and morals?" Dr. Fisher said that national emotion, shock, and sorrow had never for any Sovereign, been so personal, so deep, or so devoted as for the late King. He added that the Monarchy m Britain had become “the most potent and pregnant symbol and sacrament of the nation’s unity.” The King and Queen of Sweden, King Paul of the Hellenes, and others of the large house party who are the guests of Earl and Countess Mountatten at Broadlands, Romsey, Hampshire, attended a service in Romsey Abbey* London’s costermongers, the pearly “kings,” "queens,” “princes,” and "princesses, to-day paid their respects to the King’s memory at a service held in the Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Southwark. Umbrellas protected the expensive ostrich feather headgear of the women as they walked to the church in drizzling rain.