FINAL HONOURS
FUNERAL OF LATE QUEEN MAUD BODY TO BE CONVEYED TO PORTSMOUTH. SERVICE AT MARLBOROUGH HOUSE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.38 a.m.) RUGBY, November 22. The body of Queen Maud has been conveyed to the private chapel of Marlborough House. A service will be held there at 9 a.m. tomorrow and will be attended by King Haakon, Prince Olaf, their Majesties, the King and Queen, Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, King George of Greece, and Prince Paul of Yugoslavia. The service will be conducted by Prebendary L. J. Percival, Precentor of the Chapels Royal. The coffin at 9.20 a.m. will be placed on a horse-drawn gun-carriage for conveyance to Victoria Station and King Haakon and Prince Olaf, His Majesty the King, King George of Greece, the Duke of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester and Prince Paul will walk behind, the cortege. There will be no military escort, and troops will not line the route. The train, with the coffin, will leave Victoria Station at 10 a.m., arriving at Portsmouth about noon. King Haakon and Prince Olaf will travel on the train with the coffin, and at Portsmouth will go aboard H.M.S. Royal Oak, which will convey the coffin to Norway. In the House of Lords, tributes were paid to Queen Maud by. Earl Stanhope, Lord Snell. Lord Gainsford and the Archbishop of Canterbury, after which the House passed a motion of condolence.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1938, Page 5
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244FINAL HONOURS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1938, Page 5
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