LAST ROYAL FUNERAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 823, 23 May 1910, Page 7

LAST ROYAL FUNERAL.

QUEEN VICTORIA'S CORTEGE. Tho route of the procession for the late Kmg's funeral will be the same as'that followed at the funeral of Queen Victoria. On that occasion the coffin arrived at Victoria Railway Station, London, at 11 a.m. on the day of the sad pageant—Saturday, February % 1901—having been brought the previous day with naval ceremony from Cowes, Isle of Wight, to Portsmouth, on board tho Royal yacht Alberta, and thence conveyed to Victoria by special train. As soon as tho coffin arrived at Victoria the procession, which had been previous?* marshalled, started from there for Pad dington Station. Route of Procession. The route of the procession -through* London was as follows. Prom Victoria Station, along Buckingham Palace Road to Buckingham Gate. Past the front of Buckingham Palace to The Mall. - Down the Mall to the fanning of St, James's Palace. Up St. James's Street. Along Piccadilly to Hydo Park. Into the Park by Apsley Gate. Out of Hyde Park by the Marble Area, Along Edgeware Road to Boundary Road (formerly known as Oxford and Cambridge Terrace), London Street, anl Across Praed Street to Paddington Station. , Order of Procession. The order of the funeral procession in London was as follows:—Aa officer of the headquarters, staff, bands of tb* household cavalry, volunteers, yeomanry, colonial corps, militia, Honourable Artillery Company, Army Veterinary and other Departments, Infantry of the Line, Foot Guards, Royal Regiment of Artillery, Cavalry of the Line, Household Cavalry, Royal Navy, etc., foreign military attaches, headquarters 6taff of the Army and field-marshals, band ,of the ; Royal Engineers, band of the Royal Ar- 1 j tillery, the Earl Marshal (riding), three gold sticks, two white staves, gun carriage, borne by non-commissioned offi- ( cere and men of the Guards, and on each ' ; side, the Lord Chamberlain, aides-de-camp, Queen's physician, equerries, Lord-in-Waiting, Lord Steward, and aides-do-camp, the Kins, with the Duke of Connaught and the German Emperor on either side (all riding), Royal Family (rid-,. ing), Royal representatives (riding), Master of the Horse (riding), four four-horse . carriages conveying the Queen and princesses, closing escort. The foreign Sovereigns present the Emperor of Germany anl the Kings of Belgium, Greece, and Portugal. At. St. George's Chapel. At Paddington the coffin was carried into the train which was waiting to convey it to Windsor, and placed in a catafalque prepared for it in the, late Queen's own carriage. Then the Royal and other mourners entered the train, which reached Windsor shortly after 2 p.m.' The coffin was carried by the bearer company into St. George's Chapel, where an illustrious congregation gathered. Tim service was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of Winchester, and at its close the deputy to , the Garter King-of-Arma proclaimed tlw death of Victoria and the accession of King lid ward. After the service in St. George's Chapel, the body was temporarily placed in the Albert Memorial Chapel, whence it was removed next day •to its final resting place in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore.

An Impressive Pageant. The route of the procession through London was lined and kept by regular troops, volunteers, and police, behind whom there had assembled the largest orowds, it was generally, admitted, that had ever . gathered, even in London. "Everywhere," said "The Times," "except in places 'where the pressure was for a time intolerable, the conduct of this huge mass of people was beyond reproach. It was: a silent mass of mourners, in dre«s and demeanour embodying the spirit of the day. As a pageant it was deeply impressive; as an example ot organisation it was far mors successful than such events have often been. Even the awkward contretemps at "Windsor, where the artillery horses, chilled by tho long wait, refused to move, and were quickly replaced by bluejackets, was scarcely to be regretted, since it served to show once more the readiness, tho utility, asd the übiquity of the Navy. But, remarkable as a pageant, and-as an* evidence of the depth of the national sorrow, the funeral of the Queen was perhaps even more remarkable as a do- : monstration of_ international sympathy and respect. Nothing quite like it, as a tribute of - personal reverence from the chiefs and Governments of almost every State in the' world, has ever been seen. ! In the procession itself, or in the Chapel . at Windsor, were the heads of many ! great countries, the prospective heads of others, and the representatives of all. • • ROYAL BURIAL PLACES. HONARCHS SINCE THE CONQUEST. > i Below are given the places of burial of Sovereigns of England since the Norman i Conquest:— , „ William I, surnamed The Conqueror. . at Caen. , „ , . c. 1 ' i William 11, surnamed Rufus, at St. Swithin's, Winchester. . Henry 1., surnamed. Beauclerc, in j Reading Abbey. . ' % i Stephen, in Faversham Abbey. _ ; Henry 11, at Fontevraud, m An]ou._ ■ Richard I, surnamed "Coenr de Licn,^ at Fontevraud. . . . j John, surnamed "Lacklajid," m Worcestej : Cathedral. • Henry 111, in Westminster Abbey. Edward I. in Westminster Abbey. Edward 11, at Gloucester. Edward 111, in Westminster Abbey. , ! Richard 11, in Westminster Abbey. j Henry IV, at Canterbury. Henry V, in Westminster Abbey. ! Henrv VI, at Windsor. i Edward IV, at Windsor. Edward V, in Westminster Abbey. Richard 111, in Grey Friars Abbey, Henry VII, in Westminster Abbey. Henry VIII, at Windsor. Edward VI, at Westminster. Mary, in Westminster Abbey. Elizabeth, in Westminster Abbey. James I, in Westminster Abbey. Charles I, at Windsor. 1 Charles 11, in Westminster Abbey. James 11, at St. Germains. . x William 111 and Mary 11, in Westmfcw stcr Abbey. Anne, in Westminster Abbey. George I, at Hanover. Geor»e 11, in Westminster Abbey. George 111, in St. George's Chapel, Wind. sor. „. , George IV,' at Windsor. William IV,. at Windsor. Victoria, at Frogmore.