| Show TW T VICTORIAS FUNERAL procession 4 4 S vm 8 W bj by vad r d A 11 1 1 T KINGS AND PRINCES OF ALL NATIONS FOLLOWED THE BIER BIE OF QUEEN VICTORIA A SIMILAR SCENE WAS WITNESSED AT TH THE FUNERAL OF KING EDWARD FUNERAL RITES KING pa EDWARD 1 D WARD VII london eng ensrud abe funeral ot of king edward la in declared to have been the most imposing ceremonial great Drita lne capital ever witnessed thirty arty thousand soldiers eold ler were brought from aldershof Alders Alder bot shot and other military camps to line the street streets when the procession ealon passed axed M ae there was no rood room to barrack them over night the soldiers eold lere in the park parks and streets the city bad had the appearance ot of an invested invented town for or two daya days some cf of the soldier eold lers slept in tenta tents in the parks while the remainder lay down betide beside their guns in the streets at a conservative estimate persons passed through westminster hall to look upon the coffin of the king lying in state barriers were built by means of which the people were ushered through 1 in four line lines at it the rate of 18 an hour the body of at I 1 the late king was not exposed to view queen mother chose hymns the hymns sung at the service at windsor were all of the queen moth ere ers choice they were my god my M 7 bather ather D while I 1 stray now the laborers task ie in oer and I 1 heard a voice from kleiven scotland yard bad had all its detectives a on n duty and these were by a hundred more from continental cities all visitors were watched hut but there was little real fear of at anarchistic attempts lecause it wan was known that every one ui aider der sur ilance would be deported from england if it any trouble were caused on an this occasion and it was not likely that the persons of at the anarchist type would give up voluntarily their safest refuge refuse in europe the procession to westminster hal hall may 17 for the lying in it at stae a to was al most on aa as feat eat a as 15 the fu u procession eslon the cortege friet included king george and alt all the foreign sov on end and the queen mother and the royal ladles ladies in car biages when the funeral procession started every street car in london cameto came to to a standstill for a quarter of an hour all the public bouses houses in london were elised while the procession was pass page ing no distinction shown there was no distinction as to per son on nor were there theris any ticket privileges tor for the lying in state in westminster hall kii 11 bad to take their turn in line at st george georges chapel at windsor from whence the body was carried to its final resting place the carved stall stalls were removed la in order to give place to timber seating otherwise I 1 not a tenth of entitled to attend I 1 would have been able to enter the chapel wax was draped with violet hang i ings the service held in westminster abbey did not form any part of the royal funeral it was a memorial service sen ice held beld especially for those wein bers hers of ua bouse house of lords and house of commons who were unable to go to windier windsor electric standards were fixed filed around the place in westminster hall where the catafalque stood the public was wa admitted until tea ten at alg night al the catafalque occupied tho tb spot on an which catafalque stood the coffin was seated sealed and draped and surmounted by some of the roya royal regalia and klas king edward edwards field mar war word sword the coffin was sealed scaled and draped and surmounted by come some of at the royal edilla and was king edward field inar baan word sword the court removed to windier windsor the day before the funeral the arch bishop of canterbury assisted alsted aa by canon cation wilberforce bondt conducted td a hort short service at westminster alneter hall on an the ar rival of the body on may 17 the members of both houses of parliament attended this service neither M loubet M 1 I delcasale Delc asae nor fl 1 clemenceau formed part of the french mission to attend the funeral of king edward premier adriand in tended to go but alao also gave up the idea owing to the tact fact that emperor william wae was there under these cir the mission was purely formal it consisted of M pichon Pi clion ma W trot of foreign affairs faire af G beneral ener a D ln military governor of paris A admiral marquis and an ra representing president Pall Fali leree feres roosevelt among the monarch ex president roosevelt Rooe evelt who was named ai as special envoy of the united state states to attend the funeral of king hing edward waa was presented to king george eoon soon after bit arrival in london mr air roosevelt occupied a place with the visiting monarchs monarc ba la in the funeral procession and attended the burial at windsor jackle drew carriage king george being 0 go o closely identified with the navy the naval con tangents tin gents took a prominent part in the ceremonies Blue jackets drew the i gun carriage to windsor Win deor as an they did the carriage which bore the body of victoria although on that occasion occa eloa they did so because the honea horses became become restive Sa Slid idlers lera from the king kings company grenadier guards kept entry watch oyer the body in the throne room at buckingham palace they were ro relieved each with simple cere conr r some one of the visiting royal ties tie entered the room evemy now and then and the widowed queaa went there frequently body in magnificent tomb the body of king edward lies with chati that of bla his immediate ancestors in the magnificent mausoleum at frogmore Frog more in the home park of windsor castle in thia this structure truc ture erected by que ii victoria at a coat cost of 1000 prince albert edward father of the fate late af istir IW Tir king waa was laid to rest in 1861 if 61 in the same year queen victorias VIctor laa mother the duchess of kent rent was buried la an elaborate tomb in the grounds by in 1901 queen victoria WK was burled buried in the mausoleum belde beside her husband the structure Is probably one of the idoft ost elaborate of tho klad kind in existence it as planned la in minute detail by queen victoria as a memorial to the prince condart cona con ort eart the general puo pub ile lie Is not no to the chamber where lie the royal bodies in two immense sarcophagi but the pot spot la is a great magnet for or tour touris late tv doens 0 of whom inspect the marble mausoleum dally daily queen mother mothers grief deep the successive elve delay delays in the removal of king xing edward edwards body from rom the bedroom where he died to the throne room at buckingham palace were dul due to queen alexandra reluctance to sti 1 low the body to be removed from rom tho the proximity of her own apart apartments mants all arrangements had been made for the reception of the body in the throne room and notices were issued to member members of the household that they would be permitted to view tha the body lying in state there tut day by day the removal waa was and the invitation deferred the queen queens private apartment communicate directly with those or of the late kin king and it I 1 Is not known bow how often she visited the room in abt h her dead burband lay or the durat duration lw i ot of the vigil vigils she made there but la td Is aid said her lter sister the dolaser em press of russia Ilu aela feared ber her grief might prove too great a strain during the later yeara years of the king kings life he and the queen were on an the most excellent terms of friendship and good rood feeling indeed it Is no ex agger atlon to say they were deeply at cached to one another the king waa was most kind and considerate in his attitude toward his consort who valued highly the attention attentions be always showed her only those intimately acquainted with both the written and unwritten political history of the last nine years knew bow how great a figure was wax edward in controlling great bues lo 10 times of international crises of the first magnitude ills influence waa was the more conspicuous perhaps because british public life today con bains no statesmen in either party of more than mediocre ability this makes sense of loss the keener av kings consideration for consort for years they had been to quote quota an informant of credit the beat of pals vale and while the inclusion la in the k lint published in to the papers of a house party at tham of at a certain womans name caused some astonishment in general biety society there was considerable the more astonishment among those in the tb inner circles of court life at the efforts made by r a A foral fi fayn yn cn surba ador to suppress any mention if i the womans name in the hat list of guests who were invited to meet the hing at his country house queen alexandra herself by A letter which the london times described as artless has shown how deeply she Is affected by the death of her consort authoritative details of what passed on the day of queen Alexan Alex andrae drax return to england show in what regard king edward held bis his queen on that thursday before bis tild death edward wae was continually speaking of ber her majesty to his hl entourage la to the morning be he announced his intention to go to the station to meet her on her arrival and when he was forced to bow 16 6 the advice of bla his physicians in this matter he said he be would at least meet her at the head of the stairs in buckingham palace from the day oe he landed in eng land au as princess alexandra he eald said he bad had never failed to abet ber when she came from abroad ile ai hollowed toll owed all stages of ber her journey and as th the day wore on and his rendition condition became becam worse he gave instructions that the he was to be guarded against the shock of seeing suddenly biow Abow changed by ill ness be was there are two doors to the room in which his majesty died one facing the invalid chair in which be he was reclining the other at the side lie ile directed that the queen be brought in at the side door so she 4 abound see him in the most favorable aspect when the queen arrived king ed ira ward by an effort which taxed hi his powers to the utmost stood uy up to receive ber her As she clasped him in ber her arms he fell back into the chair la in a state of collapse per for a urns line it was feared the end was at band 41 0 4 1 ars I 1 1 11 4 77 it M il aak ST 8 GEORGES GEORGE 19 CHAPEL WINDSOR FROM AFTER thil a A INAL FINAL ceremonies THE BODY OF THE LATE KINO KING waft WAS COW CON TO THE MAUSOLEUM |
