LATE QUEEN MAUD
SIMPLE SERVICE IN LONDON BODY CONVEYED TO NORWAY II P A —B.v Electric Telegraph Coovriebt LONDON, 23rd November. A simple service in the chapel at Marlborough House, in which the Bishop of Oslo participated, preceded the conveyance of Queen Maud’s coffin on a gun carriage, escorted by a bearer party of Grenadier Guards, to Victoria Station. King Haakon and the Crown Prince Olaf followed in the first car, with King George and tho King of Greece in the second, and after them the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. Only King Haakon and Prince Olaf joined the train for Portsmouth, from where the body was conveyed to Norway i-x the battleship Royal Oak with an escort of four destroyers. ROYAL OAK LEAVES FOR NORWAY ill P.A -Bv Electric I’elegraoh-Uopvright (Received 25th November, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 24Lh Novomber. The warship Royal Oak .with the body of Queen Maud, left tor Norway.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 November 1938, Page 5
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