Queen Alexandra's Message to the Nation

Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume III, Issue 3, 1 July 1910, Page 110

Queen Alexandra's Message to the Nation

Buckingham Palace, 10th May, 1910. " From the depth of my poor broken heart I wish to express to the whole nation, and our kind people we love so well, my deep-felt thanks for all their touching sympathy in my overwhelming sorrow and unspeakable anguish. Not alone have I lost everything in him, my beloved husband, but the nation, too, has suffered an irreparable loss by their best friend, father, and Sovereign thus suddenly called away. " May God give us all His Divine help to bear this heaviest of crosses which He has seen fit to lay upon us — ' His will be done.' Give me a thought in your prayers, which

will comfort and sustain me in all I still have to go through. " Let me take this opportunity of expressing my heartfelt thanks for all the touching letters and tokens of sympathy I have received from all classes, high and low, rich and poor, which are so numerous that I fear it. will be impossible for me ever to thank everybody individually. " I confide my dear son into your care, who I know will follow in his dear father's footsteps. Begging you to show him the same loyalty and devotion you showed his dear father. I know that both my dear son and daughter-in-law will do their utmost to merit and keep it. Alexandra."