PRINCESS ROYAL

Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1931, Page 5

PRINCESS ROYAL

BURIAL AT WINDSOR. (Official Wireless.) RUGBY, January 9. The King and Queen, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of York, and the Duke of Gloucester, returned to Buckingham Palace for the funeral of the Princess Royal at Windsor tomorrow afternoon. A party at tlie palace for the delegates to the India Round Table Conference was one of the functions which was cancelled on account of the court morning, hut the King and Queen receive the Indian delegates on Monday morning before they return to Sandringham. LONDON, January 10. The newly-restored chapel of St. George, Windsor Castle, now, among the most beautiful in the world, was the scene of the last rites of the burial of the Princess Royal, whose funeral was the first there, since the chapel’s restoration. A Scots’ Guard piper, playing a lament, headed the procession and six non-coms of -.the 4th and 7th Dragoon Guards, of which the (.Princess was the Coloncl-in-chief, shouldered the coffin, covered with a "Union Jack, on which lay a spray of arum lilies and a bunch of white heather, tied with the Duke of Fife’s tartan. Hie coffin Was carried between a guard of hobof of Life Guards, with bowed heads and crossed .hands rest* ing on their sword hilts, The service was attended only by friends and relations, Tljelr Majesties, the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York), the Hare woods. Princess Arthur, Lady Maud Carnegie and other royalties stood with bowed heads as after the Dean of Windsor pronounced the words .‘‘Grant us safe lodging, hold rest, and peace at last.” The coffin sank slowly under the floor, disappearing into the-"’ - royal tomb house beneath the chapel, while the organ pealed the triumphant march from Verdi’s “Aida,”' played at the special request left by the Princess Royal. Sir Granville Ryrie, Australian agents general and their wives attended a memorial service at the chapel Royal, at Saint James.