LATE PRINCESS ROYAL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 9

LATE PRINCESS ROYAL

THE LAST RITES (United Press Association—By Electric j TelegrapH—Copyright) LONDON, 10th January. ; The newly-restored chapel of Saint 1 George, at Windsor Castle, now among the most beautiful in the world, was the scene of the last rites at the burial of the Princes? Royal, whose funeral was the first there since the restoration. A Scots' Guards piper playing a lament headed the procession, and six non-commission-ed officers of the 4th and 7th Dragoon ; Guards, of which the Princess was Colo-nel-in-Chief, shouldered the coffin, covered with a Union Jack on which lay aspray of arum lilies and a bunch of white heather tied with the Duke of > Fife’s tartan, between a guard of lion- 1 our of the Life Guards with bowed heads and crossed hands resting on their sword hilts. The service was attended only by

friends and relatives. Their Majesties the King and Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York, the Earl and Countess Ilarewood, 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, holy 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 out the triumphant march from Verdi’s “Aida,” played at the special request left by the Princess Royal. Sir Granville Ryrie, High Commissioner for Australia, and Agents-General and their wives, attended a memorial service at the Chapel at Saint James’s. (British Offioial Wireless) RUGBY, 9th January. 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 to-morrow afternoon.