New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-12
Edward VII Still Unburied.

King Edward Is still unburied although
re has been dead for nearly nine months.
! Ills coffin still rests on a slab Of stone be
fore the altar, in the centre of the royal
vaults. beneath s. Georges Chapel. in
Windsor Castle Neither King George nor
Queen Alexandra mas come to any decision
as to the ultimate disposal of the body.
and while on the one hand il is possible
thar tho coffin may be left in the royal
rau3t. il is still more probable that it may
he entombeI in a granite or marble sar-
oCrhaS7Is in the Albert Memorial Chanel.
whore the Duke Of Clarence and the Duke
Of Albany already rest.
The royal vault beneath st George 5
Chapel is far from being a gloomy cham
Der The walls are painted white and the
place is brilliantly lighted ny means Of cleo
rricitv. while by order Of Queen Alexandra,
Who is very High Church in her ideas a
lamp has been kept burning night and dav
before tho altar ever since her consort's
body was consigned - the vault
There are all sorts Of legends and stories
about the ROYAL vaults in which lie tho re-
mains OF Henry VII and of his Queen.
Lady Jane Seymour: Of Charles I. OF
George III, of Queen Charlotte. of George
~. of William " and Of the last King of
Hanover. Queen Victoria entertained such
a holy horror Of her uncle. George ", that
she did not relish the idea Of her deeply
moUrned husband the late Prince Consort
resting in his proximity. and so she erected
the beautiful AMI costly mausoeu1u AT
FroEmore. where she now reposes beside
him Bur Edward VII, although he would
have preferred 10 be inferred beside his
little son Prince Alexander, in the village
chu--hyard at Sandringham. realized that
has ultimate resting place would either he
i'll the royal vault beneath ST. Georges
Chapel or IN the adjacent Albert Memorial
Chapel. and never manifested any pro-
nounced repugnance 10 the idea.
Among the stories current connected with
the royaI vaults IS one TO the effect that
on The night Of January 90, the anniversary
Of The execution Of Charles /. his spectre
may be seen moving through the cloisters
OF the chapel and across the quadrangle.
one Of the witnesses of this apparition be
ing no less d parsonage than Mrs. Davidson.
wife Of the Archbishop Of Canterbury, who
was for 50 many years dean of Windsor.
As Mrs. Davidson is the wife of one pri-
mate and the daughter IF another. her tes-
tfnonv ought to carry some weight
Then there Is a story 10 the effect that
George " on his deathbed gave peremp-
placed in the centre Of the royal vault and
mat the collins Of The other members Of the
roval family were 70 be moved TO re
spectful distance: in one word, sidetracked.
HIS orders were executed. But 1t Is added
that when. some two or three weeks later,
the vault was visited the collins Of the
royal personaEes consigned to the vault
were found in the utmost disorder, in quite
different places - those to which they had
been moved when the body Of George "
came among them. It has always been I'M
eerstood that tie illustrious dead took this
means Of protesting against the idea Of
being compelled 70 show any regard and
respect or 10 accord any post-mortem hon.
age 20 a kinsman for whom they enter
tanned SO Sreat a Ioatilin2 and contempt as
George " Al any rate. this was the con-
strueron placed upon the uncanny peregri-
nations ~ their bodies, and George Tvs
coffin was relegated 10 enc or the side
shelves. since which time peace has been
maintained in this great chamber, or rather
series ~ chambers Of England's royal
dead, and their collins have kept quietly 10
their originally allotted places.