The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1901-02-05
|NTERMENT OF QUEEN.
Victoria's Remains Laid to Rest In
\ the Frogmore Mausoleum.
THE LAST SAD PROCESSION.
King Edward, queen Alexandra, thc
Kaiser and others of the Royal
Family Attend Services
Beside the Comm.

London, Feb. 4.-The final rites over
the dead queen were concluded at Wind
sor at $3.50 p. M, and the body was laid
to rest in the Frogmore mausoleum.
King Edward, Queen Alexandra, EN-
peror William and others of the royal
family attended services beside the coffin
at an early hour in the morning.
Dismounted Life guardsmen in their
scarlet cloaks, the white plumes of their
! helmets glistening in the sun, kept the
route clear from the castle slope.
From the Albert Memorial chapel to
the mausoleum, nearly mile from the
great gate OF the castle, there Is steep
slope Of 500 yards, at the bottom Of
which are the lodge gate and fence. On
the castle side OF this were hundreds of
ticket holders. On the other side, where
the Long walk commences, the public was
lhassed.
At 2:45 p. m. picturesque touch of
color was added to the scene. Sir Walter
Parratt, private organist to the late
queen and organist Of st. Georges Chap
81 Royal, Windsor, and his choir, all in
SUPPLIES and college caps, walked quick
y down the slope through the crowds to
the mausoleum.
Then minute guns commenced to boom
as a battery of artillery at the foot Of the
Long walk paid its final honors to the
dead queen. The Windsor church bells
toled solemnly, and the strains Of the
band, gradually growing stronger and
stronger, echoed from the castle quad
rangle.
Order of the Procession.
At 3:15 p. m. the head of the procession
passed slowly out of King Georges arch
in the following order:
The queens company Of Grenadier
guards with arms reversed, the govern
or and constable of Windsor castle, the
Duke Of Argyll, Highlanders and pipers,
royal servants, band Of the Grenader
guards, the bishop OF Winchester and the
dean of Windsor, the lord chamberlain
and the lord steward, the gun carriage
with the coffin, supported by the late
queens equcrries and household, fanked
by the same officers rs appeared in Sat
urday's ceremony in London.
Following the coffin walked King Ed
ward, the Duke of Connaught, Emperor
William, the king OF the Belgians, Prince
Henry Of Prussia and all the other royal
personages, including Queen Alexandra
and the princesses, with the exception of
the few who have already left England.
Those present were accompanied by their
suits.
The route was through the Norman
gateway, across the quadrangle, through
the George ~ archway, down the Long
walk, through the lodge gates and then
from the Long walk to the mausoleum.
The route from the George Nv archway
In M nf fha on1a a.. 4
with troops, under the command of
guards.
At the MausOleum.
The queens pipers played from the
gates to the mausoleum itself: On arriv-
ing there, the queens company Of grena-
dlers opened outward and formed in
double rank on the steps of the mauso-
leum.
The choir met the funeral cortege on
the steps. The highlanders, pipers and
servants on their arrival went into the
mausoleum and took up the positions al.
lotted to them. ..
Then the coffin was carried into the
mausoleum, preceded by the choir and
clergy.
The members of the royal family on en-
terlhg LOOK places on each side Of the
sarcophagus, the royal household stand
ing in the transept on each side.
The rest Of the ceremony was private,
as the space inside the mausoleum was
limited.
The choir sang Sir Arthur Sullivan's
anthem Yea, Though l Walk" the
hymn Sleep Thy Last Sleep" and Ten.
nyson's 'The Face Of Death Is Turned
Toward the Sun of Light" set to music
by Sir Walter parratt.
The afternoon newspapers emphasize
the widespread satisfaction expressed in
Great Britain at the American evidence
of esteem Of Queen Victoria. The Globe
declares it is strictly accurate to say,
The two incidents Of the universal
mourning which have made the greatest
impression on the British are the visit OF
Emperor William and the extraordinary
and spontaneous manifestation of feeling
in the United States"