ANIMAL CEMETERIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 287, 7 November 1925, Page 13

ANIMAL CEMETERIES

QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S PETS. A SPECIAL BURIAL PLOT. Londoners recently discovered that a well-tended but now disused cemetery for dogs lies behind the Bayswatcr road railings of Kensington Gardens. An old keeper, whose garden gate gives entrance to the littlo burial ground, still looks well after .the little plot with its miniature headstones and carved texts of remembrance. But no one seems to have recalled in tins connection that a small cemetery for royal pets is to be found in the grounds of Marlborough House. Everyone knows that Queen Alexandra has a tender heart for animals, but very few people know that this tenderness went the length of '.he creation of a special little garden of remembrance in the grounds of her London home. The first headstone went up not long after the young Danish Princess became Princess of Wales, “joss,” the favourite Japanese dog of the Princess of Wales, who died in the summer of 1864, was one of the first pets to be buried there. A favourite rabbit was buried thero in ISBI, and had his headstone like the dogs. Before she retired to her Sandringham homo the Queen Mother used to pay frequent visits to the plot where she buried her pets so long ago.