THE DUKE OF CLARENCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2325, 3 March 1892, Page 4

THE DUKE OF CLARENCE.

Up to 3 o’clock p.m. on the day of the Duke of Clarence’s death over seven hundred persons had signed their names on the visitors’ book at Marlborough House. The signatures were of persons in all conditions of life. The newspapers were full of sympathetic expressions, and no theatrical performances were given. The Court was ordered into full mourning for three months, and all drawingrooms and State levees were cancelled. The remains of the dead Prince were removed from Sandringham House to the parish church, where the Prince of Wales and his family attended the services on Sunday, January 17. Brief services were held at the parish church at Sandringham on January 20th. At their conclusion the corpse was placed upon a gun carriage, and escorted by a battery of Artillery and the people of the village to the railway station. Here the train was taken for London. The remains were then accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Wales and family. All the Government Offices and many private houses in London had their blinds drawn down, and the flags were at half-mast. In accordance with the request of the Lord Mayor, a large

number of factories, shops, etc., closed up. At Windsor the weather was cold and dismal. The shops were closed and draped in black. Wreaths arrived from all parts of the country, and were taken to the Albert Memorial Chapel. The Dukes of Edinburgh, Connaught, and Teck (with- his two sons), as well as Prince Christian and many foreign representatives, awaited the royal train at Windsor station, where it arrived at 3.30. The Lord Chamberlain received the members of the royal family as they alighted from the carriage, and the coffin was taken on the shoulders of men from the 10th Hussars. It was wrapped in a silken Union Jack, and on it was a single splendid wreath, the gift of the Queen. As the detachment of soldiers bearing the coffin walked slowly along the platform, a signal was given to a party of Life Guards in the round tower of the Castle who fired minute guns. At the same time a roll of drums from the massed band burst forth, and the procession moved. The Life Guards had the right of the line, and were followed by the bands playing funeral marches. A detachment of the 10th Hussars and Horse Artillery immediately preceded the gun carriage upon which the remains had been placed, and on either side walked officers of the Guards and 10th Hussars. The charger which had been ridden by the deceased, saddled and bridled, and with the boots of the late owner reversed in the stirrups, was led directly after the gun carriage. The mourners came next, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Fife, the Dukes of Connaught and E dinburgh, Princes Christian and Henry of Battenburg, and the Marquis of Lome. Then followed the Grand Duke Alexis representing the Czar of Russia, Prince Albert SchleswigHolstein, the Crown Prince of Denmark the Duke of Oporto (brother of the King of Portugal), Prince Frederick Leopold of Russia, and the Duke of Teck between Prince Ernest of Leiningen and Prince Edward of Sax Weimar. Then followed the three Princes of Teck, sons of the Duke of Teck, the Duke of Wurtemberg and Prince Philip of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The Princess of Wales drove from the station by a private road to the chapel. The cortege passed into the castle and the services were held in St. George’s Chapel. The Very Rev. Philip Frank Elliott, Domestic Chaplain to the Queen, and the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Bishop of Rochester, officiated at the ceremonies. The choir sang the burial service as the procession moved up the nave of the chapel. On the arrival of the body at the choir, the Prince of Wales, as chief mourner, stood on one side of the coffin and the Duke of Fife on the other, the rest of the royal personages being grouped near them. A psalm was chanted by the choir, and the Dean read the lesson. The choir then sang the hymn selected by the Queen, the Bishop of Rochester read the concluding prayers, and in consonance with custom the Garter King-at-Arms proclaimed the title of the deceased. The ceremonies were concluded by the singing of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s anthem, “ Brothers Gone Before Us.” During the evening the coffin was removed to the Albert Memorial Chapel and placed between the centotaph of the late Prince Consort and the recumbent figure of the Duke of Albany.