The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-02-03
WOMEN IN WESTMINSTER
Baroness Buraett-C outts Not the First
Wife Laid to Rest There.

NEe-tmluster Abbey has enshrlued the
remains of on many men who have made
the history of England from the time II
Edward The Clntcss1r un the passing
away of lle last great statesman OF The
Victorian era that We are apt ID forget
the women lying AZ rest within its gray
old walIz-WIVes. widows, gorgeous
DANES. and learned ladies'; all the
queens reEndnt in England. and several
or tIa queens eaHs0Tg from the wife of
the C1ufezsor 10 Caroline OF Anspach,
who So gTaci1usiy received JEANNE
Deans. Thus tile announcement that
the Baroness BurG -tt-Cout-s, who died
NJ her residence ~ London. will be
buried I'm Westminster Abbey, VIII not
bee au event without precedent
Among the devoted wives of the
Abbey must Doc mentioned Eleanor Of
CASTLE. whose c1u-tship and marriage
t5 Edward / reads like a tale from a
medieval romance. The beautiful. Ma
doun1-Iika Philippa or Ha-naUit cole-
DRAFTED IN history for saving the six
citizens or Calais from the royal wrath
/ OF her husband, Edward III. lies close
( by Another wife, Anne OF Bohemia. is
. represented In p0rtrait-enigy claspiug
IanreJouately the hand of the husband
. by her side. though 81 did NOS share her
tomb, being years after murdered in
+ POmtcTt Castle The first u Doe buried
! beneath the beautiful Chapel OF Henry
Z vi was a Wumau-hIs own wife. Eliza
J beth, who died in giving birth 10 q
I child Iu the Tower Of London six
z years later husband and vile were Te-
3 united lu the royal vault, which may Dee
I regarded as the most curious ia the Alb
hey. 1t is unnecessary TO do more than
mention Queens Mary and Elizabeth,
whose cUmus-lu testimony of Tile COM
/ mon iairh Of Catholic and Protestant
rest one upon the other, or of Mary
+ Queen of Scots or Of Anne OF Denmark,
J the urst queen consort of Great Britain.
Anne HYDE lies there with her Two royal
daughters Mary ii ana Anne. surround
ed by the tiny collins of thirty Stuart
babies and children, eighteen being the
little ones of Queen Anne.
/ The ashes Of VIE and husband actual
ly iutermIngle i'm the case of Caroline
and George IT, for when he was con
EeEed 20 the grave tWeuty-tnree years
. each coffin, in accordance with his in
. structi0ns. was removed. SO many
feminine memorials have place in
the chapels of 81. Nicholas that il might
VOL in modern sense, be called the
Lady Chapel.
3ut the Abbey contains no more sweet
or undetermined woman than Margaret
the mother OF Henry VII. Intellectual
d
land the printing press; piOus and benev-
ioleHt. she founded two colleges at Cam
bridge and also the Lady Margaret cha.
of divinity and certain charities az
Westminster. The whole realm of TO-
nance contains nothing more tragic
Z than the life story of Lady Arabelle
Stuart whose prefenses TO The throne
and consequent tragic death forms q
chapter In the closing years OF Eliza
beLh's reign.
CurIOusly enough. in the nine chapels
radiating round that OF the ConfessOI
the sites or five ancient affairs are Occu-
pied by the Combs OF women, and each
iOr them Protestant Not only was oil
yer Cromwell buried in the Abbey. bat
lalsO his mother At ninety-fOur, his sister
land favorite daughter. who Introduce us
TO THE interior dom esticitles of the Pro
teCtor household But an except Eliza
beth CIaypole. the married daughter
were ignominiously eXhumed at the Res
tcration.
In Poets Corner memorials to such
women as Mrs, Barrett Browning and e
Christina ROssetti are conspicuous By
/ their absence But imparuality as "a
sex and nationality is shown in the
beautiful marble medallion TO Jennie
Lind. the Swedish Nightingale. Impair
TALLY has also admitted 10 the ADbe5
several actresses.
Few women of the present day have
been buried in Westminster. but the
Abbey rOll-call would be far from com
plete without mention of Lady Augusta
Stanley and Mrs Gladstone, wife OF
the late English premier. In this i'm
posing list must now be included tht
name of Baroness Burdett-Coutts
whose funeral took place January ..