Loved of All

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XV, Issue 202, 25 November 1925, Page 5

Loved of All

The Queen Mother “LADY OF SWEET GRACIOUSNESS.” PARLIAMENT’S HEARTFELT SYMPATHY. [By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.] London, Nov. 23. Mr. Baldwin, in the House of Commons, moving that an address be presented to the King sympathising Tn the death of Queen Alexandra, said all would ever remember her with grateful affection for the love she inspired in all classes. Looking back on the Queen’s life, nothing was more striking than the way she identified herself with the people of the country immediately she landed. Ilers was a personality which impressed everybody. Every member of the House felt himself in the position of a mother’s son. and in that spirit sent deep and heartfelt sympathy with the King, who was bearing the sharpest vet tenderest loss to which the son of man is heir.

Mr Ramsay Macdonald, in seconding, said: “We have felt for two generations the presence of a lady of very sweet graciousness, humane consideration and simple tenderness of heart, one revealing the dignity of Royalty and the close kinship of humanity, whether in the glowing blaze near the Throne or in the more subdued lights of widowhood. She won hearts that spring day in 1863 and kept them to the end.”

Mr. Lloyd George said: “It is 15 years since she reigned as Oueen. but she still held the Throne of all people’s hearts, because she had all the graces and charms that fascinated the people. Her whole life was marked bv that charity which thinketh no evil and bolieveth all things.”

M.r T. P. O’Connor said that as father of the House he Imped he would he allowed to add the voice of Ireland which loved her for her tenderness and sympathy. The motion was agreed to in silence, the members standing. In the House of Lords. Lord Salisbury. Lord Haldane Lord Oxford and the Archbishop of Canterbury voiced ‘be sentiments of the House in a resolution of condolence. Many in deep mourning sat in the side gaN levies.—(A. and N.Z.)’

The Last Sad Rites TO-MORROW AND FRIDAY. .. DETAILS OF ARRANGEMENTS (Received 25, 9.10 a.m.) London, Nov. 24. At least four Kings will attend Queen Alexandra’s funeral. Apart from King George, her son, there will be present Ring Christian, of Denmark (nephew;. King Haakon, of Norway (son-in-law), and King Albert of Belgium. The coffin will bo taken from the chancel of Sandringham Church on Thursday afternoon and conveyed on a hand bier to Wolfcrton Station, the King and Queen walking behind the body, followed by a great procession of tenantry and villagers. There will be no ceremony on arrival at Liverpool street station.

The removal of the casket lo the Chapel Royal, at St. James’s Palace, will be carried out in the quietest manner possible, the King’s desire being to avoid all pomp. During the night the coffin will be watched by Gentlemen-at-Arms and Yeomen of the Guards. The procession front St. James’s Pal ace to Westminster Abbey will start at 11 o’clock, and will pass through The Mall, Whitehall, and Parliament street. It is proposed that the gun-carriage which bore the bodies of Queen Victoria and King Edward shall be used and be drawn by 150 bluejackets, hut the “Daily Herald” protests against tho monstrous suggestion that a woman re membered for her kindliness and generosity should be drawn through the streets on a hideous military contraption, the very symbol of meanness and hate. Four Kings will walk behind the gun-carriage. In tho Abbey the coffin will be placed at the foot of the chancel steps. The Archbishop of Canterbury will conduct a simple service, assisted by Canon Carnegie and the Precentor, the Rev Leigh Hunter Nixon. The service will last 'thrccquarters of an hour and will include Queen Alexandra’s favorite psalm, tho twenty-third. The first hymn will bo 11 Now the Labourer’s Task is O ’or,’ ’ and the second Baring-Gould’s “On the Resurrection Morn.” As the mourners leave, Chopin’s Funeral March will bo played.

Admission to the Abbey will be by ticket, but after one o’clock the public will be admitted and will file past the coffin until nine o’clock, after which it will be taken quietly to Windsor. Mourning is everywhere apparent in London. Women arc largely wearing black. Most of the shop windows were rc-drcssed at the week-end with black, grey and purple dresses. Tho theatres are closing on Friday throughout* the country.—(A. and N.Z.)

FESTIVITIES CANCELLED. (Received 25, 10.5 a.m.) London. Nov. 24. A State banquet and other festivities, which were to have been held on December Ist. have been cancelled in consequence of Queen Alexandra’s death. —(A. and N.Z.) N.S.W. ASSEMBLY’S TRIBUTE Sydney, Nov. 21. The Assembly, having carried a motion of sympathy with the King on the death of Queen Alexandra, adjourned for a day as a mark of respect for the ’ate Queen. The State Parliament of Victoria and Tasmania, after passing resolutions of condolence with the King on the death of Queen Alexandra, adjourned for a day.