FUNERAL CORTEGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 5

FUNERAL CORTEGE

RULERS AND STATESMEN PROCESSION IN LONDON HISTORIC GUN CARRIAGE JOURNEY" TO ROYAL VAULT LONDON, Jan. 22. The Royal funeral will be attended by I lie. King" and Queen of Norway, the Kings of Denmark, Bulgaria, and Belgium, Prince Paul of Yugo-slavia, the Grown Prince, and Princess of Sweden, the Crown Prince Paul of Greece, Prince Nicolas and other Rumanian dignataries. M. Le Brim, President of Prance, and M. Laval, the Prime Minister, if he has not resigned, American, Portuguese and other ambassadors, Baron von Neurath. the German Foreign Minister, and possibly General Goering, and the Princess Juliana, of Holland. There will be a full State procession oa Tuesday from Westminster Hall to Paddingtcn Station, where the body will be entrained for the funeral in St. George's chapel, Windsor. The gun carriage will be the historic vehicle used for the funerals of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. It will be drawn by naval ratings from the Royal Naval Gunnery School. Whale Island, where King George served as an officer, and where the carriage is now stationed Troops of the Household Cavalry will escort the coffin from Windsor Station t> the chapel. Guards will line the streets.

The scene at the chapel will be brilliant. Royalties will be seated in the choir. Knights of the Garter will occupy the stalls. When the coffin is lowered into the' Royal vault it will lie near King George s father and mother, and close to the body of his elder brother, the Duke of Clarence. Others buried in vaults beneath the choir are Henry VI, Henry VIU, Charles I, George ill, George IV, and William IV. It is expected that King George's pet cairn terrier Bob will follow the collm to Wolferton station from Sandnnghani on Thursday. One of those permitted to. enter the King's bedchamber before the removal of the coffin to Sandringham Church said: "The King looked exactly as in life. One half-expected him to open his eves at any moment, and awake from his sleep. Here obviously was a man who had died at peace with the world Hif slight color in his cheeks enhanced! his nobility. His calm features looked spiel; .lirtlv /egal in the death-chamber exactlj as ft the King's lifetime. The bed w» made, the coverlet was turned back, am »' silken lounge robe hung against on. wall as though at. any moment its customary wearer might need 1 it.

ADMIRATION OF-QUEEN EXAMPLE TO SUBJECTS VALUE TO NATIONAL LIFE LONDON, Jan. 22. The Times, in an editorial paying a tribute to the Queen, says : "Next to the sense of personal loss, the uppermost feeling in the minds of all people of the Empire is) sympathy and admiration for the Queen. "For 42 years, she enjoyed the happiness of an' ideal union and set an example to her husband's subjects, which, particularly in the disordered years following the Great War, has been of _ incalculable value to the national life. It is stated on the. highest authority that the Queen will contine to be known as "The Queen" until after the funeral.