ROYALTY MOURNS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 185, 26 October 1927, Page 9

ROYALTY MOURNS

DEATH OF QUEEN’S BROTHER END NOT EXPECTED By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Tuesday. A week of full mourning and a week of half mourning by the Court has j been ordered by the King, in the death j of the Marquess of Cambridge, brother ■ of Queen Mary. The Royal bereavement was most unexpected. The marquess was up and about on Sunday, but he felt ill in the evening. Doctors were called in, but the duodenal ulcer, which was perforated, was not diagnosed until the middle of the morning. Queen Mary was at this time visiting Sandringham School, and was utterly unaware of the possibility of a critical operation. The marquess was hurriedly motored to Salop Infirmary, but he never rallied again after the operation and died late in the afternoon in the presence of the Marchioness of Cambridge, their eldest son. the Earl of Eltham, and their second sou, Lord Frederick Cambridge. Their daughter the Duchess of Beaufort, failed to arrive before her father’s death. The last task of the marquess was to raise £50,000 on behalf of the Shropshire hospitals, including the infirmary where he died. —A. and N.Z.Sun. SYMPATHY MESSAGES ALL PARTS OF EMPIRE British Wire. less — Press Assn. —Copyright Reed. 11.11 a.m. RUGBY, Tuesday. Messages of sympathy with the King and Queen in the sudden death of the Queen’s brother have been received by their Majesties from all parts of the Empire. The public engagements of the members of the Royal family, including the projected visit of the Prince of Wales to-morrow to Shrewsbury, where the Marquess of Cambridge lived, have been cancelled.- —A. and N.Z.