KING’S SISTER

Evening Star, Issue 22203, 4 December 1935, Page 11

KING’S SISTER

DEATH OF PRINCESS VICTORIA Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 3. A bulletin announces that Princess Victoria died peacefully at 3.35 a.m. [Princess Victoria was the fourth child of King Edward and Queen Alexandra. She was not married.] DANISH COURT IN MOURNING. COPENHAGEN, December 3. (Received December 4, at 11 a.m.) The court will observe 10 days’ mourning for Princess Victoria. VILLAGERS’ GRIEF GOOD TO POOR CHILDREN. • LONDON, December 3. (Received December 4, at 1 a’.iii.) Princess Victoria lived at Coppius Iver (Bucks). Two volunteers (a man and a woman) from the Blood Transfusion Society, whose 1 names are kept secret according to custom, made a dramatic car dash from London to Princess Victoria’s bedside in response to the doctor’s urgent telephone call. Within 20 minutes they had each given more than a pint of blood, and the Princess appeared to rally. Few of the villagers knew; of the illness of the Princess, although she had been attended by a specialist for two months.

' Members of the Royal Family frequently visited her. Their Majesties motored to Iver only last Saturday. The King arranged for his own personal nurses to attend her, and summoned Lord Dawson of Penn. The Queen of Norway, His Majesty’s only surviving sister, who is at present in England, was informed of Princess Victoria’s death by telephone. ' The villagers were dismayed at the news. They declare that the Princess was a sort of godmother to Iver. Everyone testified to her goodness, especially to poor children. SIX WEEKS’ COURT MOURNING LONDON, December 3. (Received December 4, at 10 a.m.) The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have cancelled their plans to continue their honeymoon in Ulster. The King has ordered sis weeks’ Court mourning. Messages of sympathy are pouring in and all flags in 1 the city are half mast.- The funeral will take place at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on December 7. The service will he confined to members of the Royal family and personal friends. Simultaneously a public memorial service will bo held in the Chapel Royal, at St. Jame’s Palace. _ Fifty peeresses, in deep black, attended the opening of Parliament, which robbed it of its usual colour and pageantry. REFERENCES IN PARLIAMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 3. (Received December 4, at noon.) Sympathetic references to the bereavement sustained by their Majesties were made in both Houses of Parliament, and silent tributes to the memory of Princess Victoria were paid by the London County Council and other meetings. A more formal expression will be given to this sympathy in the House of Commons to-morrow.