LATE QUEEN MAUD
LONDON MEMORIAL SERVICE j , ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONVEYING I , BODY TO NORWAY I British Official Wireless! RUGBY, 22nd November. The body of Queen Maud was conveyed to the private chapel at Marl-j borough House. A service will be held j at 9 a.m. to-morrow in the chapel, and I will be attended by King Haakon, Prince Olav, Their Majesties, the King and Queen, Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, King George of Greece and Prince Paul, of Yugoslavia. ( The service will be conducted by Pre- t bendary L. J. Percival, precentor of , the Chapels Royal. The coffin, at 9.20 a.m., will be placed < on a horse-drawn gun carriage for con- , veyance to Victoria Station and King i Haakon, Prince Olav, His Majesty King ; George of Greece, the Duke of Kent, j the Duke of Gloucester and Prince, j Paul will walk behind the cortege.! There will be no military escort and | troops will not line the route. j j The train with the coffin will leave! ’ Victoria at 10 a.m., arriving at Ports- j mouth at about noon. King Haakon ! ] and Prince Olav will travel on the ] train with the coffin, and at Portsmouth ] will go aboard the Royal Oak, which will convey the coffin to Norway. In the House of Lords tributes were i paid to Queen Maud by Lord Stanhope. < Lord Snell, Lord Gainsford and the ] Archbishop of Canterbury, after which e the House passed a motion of con- ( dolence. r
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 23 November 1938, Page 8
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