FORMER RULERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22580, 19 November 1936, Page 11

FORMER RULERS

REBURIAL IN GREECE KING AND TWO QUEENS NOW LYING IN STATE (Received November IS, 5.5 p.m.) ATHENS, Nov. 17 Stirring scenes marked the return to Greece of the remains of King Constantine and of Queen Sophia and Queen Olga. On their arrival at Salamis on board a cruiser they were greeted with a Royal salute of 21 guns. The bodies were transferred to a destroyer on which were King George and members of the Royal Family, who were weeping. The destroyer proceeded to Piraeus where it was met by clouds of incense rising from altars erected on the quay. The party travelled to Athens by train. The coffins were placed on guncarriages which were drawn by sailors through the streets, which were draped with mourning and packed with peasants. lhe Hoval remains are now lying in state in the Cathedral. They will bo reinterred with State honours on Sunday. The remains of King Constantine of Greece and of Queen Sophia and Queen Olga were exhumed from the vaults of the Russian Church at Florence on October 17. They are to be re-interred in the Royal estate at Tatoi, near Athens. King Constantine died in 192.'}. His wife, Queen Sophiat of Prussia, was a sister of the Queen Olga was the niece of Tsar? Alexander 11. of Russia and wife of King George I. o! Greece.