TAKEN TO NORWAY
QUEEN MAUD'S BODY
LONDON, November 23
A simple service in the chapel at Marlborough House in which the Bishop of Oslo participated preceded the conveyance of Queen Maud's coffin on a gun-carriage, escorted by a bearer party of Grenadier Guards, to Victoria Station. King Haakon and the Crown Prince Olaf followed in the first car, King* George and the King of Greece being in a second car, and after them the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia.
Only King Haakon and Prince Olaf joined the train for Portsmouth, from where the body was conveyed to Norway in the battleship Royal Oak with an escort o£ four destroyers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 8
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114TAKEN TO NORWAY Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 127, 25 November 1938, Page 8
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