OBITUARY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 November 1938, Page 5

OBITUARY

QUEEN MAUD OF NORWAY DAUGHTER OF EDWARD VII. Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. The death has occurred of Queen Maud of Norway, who underwent ( an abdominal operation in London last week. Queen Maud died in her sleep as a result of heart failure. Only a nurse was present. SUFFERING SPARED KING HAAKON’S MESSAGE. (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, November 20. Queen Maud’s death in a nursing home on the date on which her mother, Queen Alexandra, died thirteen years ago, was so sudden that King Haakon, staying at Buckingham Palace, was unable to reach her bedside. The doctors summoned by the nurse could only certify the Queen’s death. A communique confirming that the cause of death was a sudden heart failure says that during the hours before midnight the distress incidental to an abdominal operation had diminished and a disturbed day given place to restfulness. The congregation of the Norwegian Church at Rotherhithe listened to a message from King Haakon: “God has taken the Queen from me this night. It is a heavy loss, though I well know it is His will. He has taken her because her work on earth is finished, and He has, I know, spared her thus much suffering.” Queen Maud was the youngest of the three daughters of the late King Edward VII. She was born on November 26, 1869. In 1896 he was married to Prince Charles of Denmark, who in 1905 became King of Norway (when that country terminated the union with Sweden, which had been in force since 1814), taking the name of Haakon VII. The heir to the Norwegian throne, Prince Ilaf, was born in 1903, and in 1929, married Princess Martha, of Sweden.