THE KING’S BEREAVEMENT

Northern Advocate, 5 December 1935, Page 6

THE KING’S BEREAVEMENT

The death of Princess Victoria, the eldest sister of His Majesty, provides another proof that palace and- cottage are alike to the Great Leveller, and that king and peasant are subject to the same joys and the same sorrows. This has been illustrated very forcibly during the past year, and there is little doubt that domestic events ■ affecting the British Royal Family have done much to cement the feelings of affection with which the people regard the Throne. The gamut of human emotions has been stirred. Countless homes into which new lives have come, from which loved members have gone on their last journey, and in which the marriage bells have rung, have been brought into close communion with the Royal House, where births, ,deaths and marriages have brought the same joy and the sorrow. In little over a year, all these things have been experienced by Their Majesties the King and Queen, and the nation has rejoiced and sorrowed with them. Today His Majesty will have the sympathy of Ins people in- a very special manner as he stands at the bier of a beloved sister who had been with him for almost seveh decades. Little was seen or heard of Princess Victoria, who led a quiet and secluded life, but it is the life spent in the privacy of the home, rather than that lived in the glare of publicity, which entwines itself around those who are the subjects of its love and th ought. ‘ ‘ Kind h earts are more than"coronets,” but when kind heart and coronet are joined, as Avas the case with Princess Victoria, the resultant life possesses the fragrance that endures. The hearts of subjects who have tested bereavement will go ouF to the bereaved King, who will have the. loving'.sympathy of all his people. '