DUKE OF KENT

Evening Star, Issue 24286, 29 August 1942, Page 4

DUKE OF KENT

BODY REACHES LONDON

BURIAL AT WINDSOR

LONDON, August 27

The Duke of Kent’s body, in an oak coffin draped with a (iag of Air Force blue' and on which there was a single wreath of multi-coloured flowers, was brought to London by train to-day from the north of Scotland. Aircraftmen guarded the coffin throughout the night at Dunrobiu Castle, the Duke of Sutherland’s Highland seat. Two special coaches carried the bodies of the other victims from farther north. The Duke of Kent’s coffin was placed beside them at Dunrobin station, where TO members of the Air Force lined the platform and presented arms in a guard of honour. Country folk from the Highlands stood silent and bare-headed, paying their last respects. Tiio Duke’s body will he in the Albert Memorial Chapel at Windsor Castle until the funeral in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. The Lord Chamberlain, the Karl of Clarendon, announced that donations to the naval amenities fund or the army and air force’s comfort funds would be appreciated instead of floral tributes.

‘ The Times ’ points out that the ordinary rules of succession will apply to the Dukedom of Kent, meaning that Prince Edward succeeds as the second Duke of Kent.

DUCHESS AT MEMORIAL CHAPEL

(British Official Wireless.)

(ißce. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Ang. 28. The Duchess of Kent drove from her Buckinghamshire home to Windsor this morning and went to the memorial chapel at Frogmore, where the coffin containing the body of the Duke is lying, having been taken from Euston to the chapel by a R.A.F. ambulance tender. The Duke’s personal standard covered the coffin, and there was a wreath from the Duchess and another from the King and Queen. The bodies of the Duke’s secretary, Lieutenant John Lowther, his equerry. Pilot-officer Michael Strutt, and his valet. Leading-aircraftman Hales, were also brought to London.

AMERICAN TRIBUTE

DUKE'S AFFECTION FOR PRESIDENT

(British Official Wireless.)

(Rec. 9.35 a.m

RUGBY, Aug. 27

A warm tribute to the Duke of Kent was paid in the Guildhall to-day by Mr J. G. Winant, the American Ambassador in Britain. The Duke had been the first to receive him when he landed on British soil, Mr Winant said, and he bad later met him in the course of his Ambassadorial duties. The Duke had known America well and had an affection for President (Roosevelt, whose name had been given to the younger son—a tribute that would always be remembered. His last journey was undertaken to visit the United States troops as well as British, and they mourned him with the British.