ROYAL MORTUARY.
BODIES OF LESSER IMPORTANT [>OY A L'J IES : REMOVED. ONLY SOVEREIGNS AND. HEIRS TO DE BURIED AT WINDSOR United Press Assn by El. Tel. Copyrigh) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Oct. SM. Live bodies 'of lesser important royalties (have been removed 'from the Royal Mortuary Chapel at Windsor to a special' vault at Frogmore The lying desires that room be found for future emergencies m the chapel, which already is becoming over-lull. (Received Oct. 25. 9 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 20. It is stated that two reasons actuated the Ring— . Firstly the vault was becoming too full, and secondly, some members of the Iloyal L anrtly had expressed a preference tor burial in the earth to burial in tno vault. In future only* Sovereigns and those in the direct line of succession will be buried in the vault. Others of Royalty will be ramrod m the Ue\v grounds. , The Daily Express states that three bodies removed were the Marquis of Cambridge, Viscount J.rematon and ‘the Duchess of Connaught The others were near relatives or Royal personages who were buried m recent times.'
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10727, 26 October 1928, Page 5
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182ROYAL MORTUARY. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10727, 26 October 1928, Page 5
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