Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1892-01-21
PRINCE ALBgRT's FUNERAL.
The Duke of Clarence and AvondaIe Laid
to Rest.

LONDON, Jan. 21.-The funeral services
over the dead Prince were commenced in
Sandringham parish church yesterday
morning and were there attended only
by members of the royal family and the
household of the Prince of Wales. The
prayers for the dead were said, psalms
were recited and hymn was sung.
At the conclusion of the ceremonies at
Sandringham, the coffin was conveyed to
Wolferton Station where a special train
was in waiting to convey the body to
Windsor.
The route from Sandringham church to
Wolferton depot was lined with crowds
of people from the neighborhood and
from London; the male portion of this
concourse respectfully raised their hats
as the body passed.
1t would be difficult to imagine a more
simple funeral service in connection with
royalty than that witnessed at Sandring-
ham. The road to the station was lined,
not by troops or police, but by the school
children of the neighborhood, who wore
large black Grape rosettes upon their left
arms, and who presented a most neat
and attractive appearance in spite of the
badge of mourning they carried.
The body was taken to the station upon
n gun carriage, like that of any officer Of
the army, and the Prince of Wales, ali
companied by the Duke of Fife, walked
the whole distance, two miles, between
the little church and the railroad depot,
directly behind the coffin.
The other mourners followed the fun
eral cortege in carriages. AS the body
school children, tenants, servants and
villagers fell into line behind it and &C
companied the remains to the spot where
they were embarked upon the train.
The funeral cars passed the outskirts
of London at o'clock, p. M, the request
for privacy, made by the royal family,
being everywhere respected in the most
praiseworthy degree.
While the train was conveying the
body of the Duke to Windsor minute
guns were fired from the war ships
and forts throughout Great Britain and
Ireland, their dull, constant booming
announcing far and wide that the re-
mains of the unfortunate young Prince
were on their way to their last resting
place.
AS the coffin was taken out of the
train and placed upon the gun carriage
in waiting, combined military band
played the dead march, and the pro-
cession started toward ST. Georges
Chapel.
The coffin was covered with the Union
Jack. and upon it was placed the busby
of the late Duke, together with his sword
! and sash. The dead Princes charger,
| covered with sable trappings, was led be-
hind the gun carriages, in the stirrups
were the dead mans military riding
boots, toes turned back.
When Canon j. Neale Dalton cast
earth on the coffin the Processes sobbed
bitterly. They also were unable to re-
strain their expressions of grief during
| the Lords Prayer, which concluded the
services.
The Prince of Wales knelt at the head
of the coffin while the prayer was being
said His face was buried in his hands,
and his heaving shoulders showed how
he was struggling to repress the agony of
| sorrow.
When the prayer was finished the
Prince arose, looking comparatively
calm, and placed on the coffin small
white wreath, which up to that time he
had held in his hand
Some surprise was expressed among
people along the route over the fact that
| the Duke of Fife walked in the process
, sion on the left Of the Prince of Wales
! and in advance of the Princes of the
, royal house, brothers of the Prince of
| Wales.
The significance of this is said to be
that the Duchess of Fife comes next in
succession to Prince George, and that
the Prince of Wales wished to give this
public recognition of the fact.