DEATH OF QUEEN MOTHER.

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16655, 21 November 1925, Page 6

DEATH OF QUEEN MOTHER.

—————— The announcement of the death of the Queen Mother, Queen Alexandra, will be received with genuine regret throughout the Empire, for though, of late years, owing to age and impaired health, she lias lived practically hi retirement, the older generation will remember when she moved in and out among her people and entered fully into the jovg anil sorrows of the nation. A daughter of King Frederick VIII of Denmark, she went to England as a girl of 19 to marry the Prince of Wales (afterwards King Edward VII.). She was at once enthroned in the hearts of the people, and she has never been dethroned. She has always adorned the high office she occupied, and her influence has always been exerted in support of those things which made for the country’s highest good. She was a tower of strength to her husband, the late King Edward VII., during his strenuous reign, and as a wife and mother provided a brilliant example for her people to follow. She had her times of agony, and the hearts of her people went out to her in 1892 when her flrst-born, the Duke of Clarence, passed away at the early age of 28, and again when she was widowed in May, 1910, the heartfelt sympathy of a united people helped materially to assuage her grief. Since the death of her husband she has practically lived in retirement at Sandringham, but evidence has been adduced that she always took a keen interest in public affairs, and kept in close touch with current events. She served her day and generation well, and she goes to her long rest followed with the honour and affection of the people she served. It could be said of her, with equal truth, as Tennyson wrote of her illustrious mother-in-law, Victoria the Great: — Her court was pure; tier lire serene; God pave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife and Queen.