SERVICE FOR QUEEN MAUD
COFFIN TO BE TAKEN TO NORWAY ON WARSHIP (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, November 22. The body of Queen Maud of Norway was taken to the private chapel at Marlborough House and a service will be held at 9 a.m. tomorrow in the chapel. It will be attended by King Haakon, Crown Prince Olaf, 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 coffin will be placed- on a horsedrawn gun carriage for conveyance to Victoria station and King Haakon, Prince Olaf, the King, King George of Greece, the Duke of Gloucester and Prince Paul will walk behind the cortege. There will be no military escort and troops will not line the route.
The train with the coffin will leave Victoria station at 10 a.m., arriving at Portsmouth about noon. King Haakon and Prince Olaf, will travel on the train with the coffin and at Portsmouth they will go aboard H.M.S. Royal Oak, which will tak- the coffin to Norway. In the House of Lords tributes were paid to Queen Maud by Lord Stanhope, Lord Snell, Lord Gainford and the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Cosmo Lang), after which the House passed a motion of condolence.
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Southland Times, Issue 23675, 25 November 1938, Page 15
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