THE FUNERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 37, 23 January 1936, Page 6

THE FUNERAL.

King Will Be Buried In Coronation Robe. MANY ROYALTIES WILL ATTEND. i Press Association —Copyright. London, Jan. 22. The funeral of King George will be held on January 28. His remains will be removed from the church at Sandringham on Thursday, and after a brief service the coffin will be placed on a guncarriage by the Grenadier Guards. The King’s Sandringham Company of the Fifth Territorial Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment will provide the guard of honour and the Grenadier Guards wifi bring up the rear. Male members of the Royal Family will walk behind the gun-carriage and the Queen and other ladies will ride in horse-drawn carriages in the procession to Wolferton station, where the coffin will be placed in a special carriage with purple hangings. All Royalties will travel by the train, which is due to arrive at King’s-Cross at 2.30 p.rn. There will be no ceremonial display of troops. Two hundred members of the Norfolk police alone will line the route. The body of the King will arrive at London on Thursday afternoon and will lie in state in Westminster Hall until the date of the funeral. There will be a full state procession on January 28 from Westminster Hall to Paddington station, where the body will be entrained for the funeral at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor. The guncarriage will be the historic vehicle used f'V the funerals of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. It will be drawn by naval ratings from the Royal Naval Gunnery School at 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 to the chapel. Guards will line the streets. Brilliant Scene. The scene at the chapel will be brilliant with Royalties seated in the choir and'Knights of the Garter in the stalls. When the coffin is lowered in the RoydJ 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 the vaults beneath the choir are Henry VI, Henry III, Charles I, George HI, George IV and William IV. I funeral will be attended by the King and Queen of Norway, the Kings of Denmark, Bulgaria and Belg'um, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden, the Crown Prince Paul of Greece, Prince Nicolas and other Rumanian dign: tones, M. Albert Le Brim and M. Pierre Laval, American, Portuguese and other ambassadors, Baron von Neurath, possibly General Goering and Princess Juliana. rho Telegraph’s Sandringham corrcs- I pond cut learned that His Majesty will be buried in his Coronation robe.