Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-18
KING 'SBODY BORNE
To WESTMINSTER
IN SILENT POMP
W;14 7t
MonarChS March to the Notes of
MuffIed Drums Behind
Edwards Casket
WIDOWED QUEEN LIFTS VEIL
Fifty Thousand Flock Into Great
Hall to Look on Features
of the Dead
WIDOWED QUEEN LIFTS VEIL
[Associa ted Press1

/ ONDON, May 17.-Simple cere-
u monies marked the removal today
= of the body of Edward VII from
Buckingham palace to Westminster
hall, but more impressive than tho
presence of kings and the gorgeous
uniforms of state officials and officers
of the army and navy was the silent
grief displayed by the British people
Massed behind double lines of SOL
diers they watched with strained eyes
and bowed heads the passing of the
gun carriage that bore the coffin of
the monarch.
In Westminster hall, where the Eng
lish monarchs down to George VI gave
their coronation festivals, where
Charles 1 was condemned to death,
where Cromwell was saluted lord pro-
tector. and where George " was
crowned the body of Edward VII will
lie in state until Friday Then it will
be taken to Windsor castle, there to
be placed temporarily in the vault be-
meath the floor of st. Georges chapel
and later in the tomb that will be pre-
pared in Albert memorial chapel.
Brief services, attended only by the
members of the royal family, were
conducted at Buckingham palace in the
morning by the bishop of London. The
archbishop of Canterbury received the
body at Westminster hall, where it was
borne on the shoulders of soldiers and
placed upon the purple catafalque. A
white and gold embroidered pail, with
the royal ensign, covers the coffin and
above all are the orb, crown and
sceptre.
At o'clock in the afternoon the
doors in the hall were thrown open to
the public Already $4,000 people were
| in line waiting for admission. They
were composed mostly of the middle
and working classes-men, women and
| children. A steady stream began pass
| ing through the hall at the rate of 5000
an hour, and at 10 o'clock tonight,
| when the hall was closed, there was a
| line extending through the streets tor
nearly two miles.
The first intimation that the crowd,
which had been waiting for hours for
| the approach of the funeral cortege.
| had was the booming of the first OF
| sixty-eight minute guns, which were
! fired at st. James park, followed by
| the tolling of "Big Ben" the great
| clock bell in the tower of the house
| of commons, which heretofore has
been heard only as it struck the hours
and by the roll of muffled drums.
Then a guardsman with sword re-
versed came down the mall at meas
ured tread, two other guardsmen fol-
lowing close behind. Then came the
officers of the headquarters staff, the
army council and the board of ad-
miralty. AS these appeared the troops
came to a half salute with reversed
guns and remained thus until Field
Marshals Lord Roberts and Lord
Kitchener of Khartoum, the admirals
of the fleet, the Indian orderly officers
in black uniforms. and the aide-de-
camp of the late king passed.
SOLDIERS HEADS ALL BOWED
With heads bowed the soldiers kept
hot Ground W6iIa the
body of their late king passed, coming
to attention again for the royal stan
dard, which was carried Immediately
behind the casket and in front of King
George, who, like the officers and other
members of royalty, was afoot. The
duke of Cornwall and Prince Albert,
two little figures in the natty uni
forms of naval cadets, followed their
father. King Frederick of Denmark
| and King Haakon with the duke of
| Connaught between them came next,
! and then followed the other members
of the British and foreign royal fam
lilies in gorgeous uniforms, the only
touch of mourning being the black
| bands on the sleeves of their coats.
An array of officers of the late kings
household, nearly all of them in bright
uniforms, but a few of them in mourn
| ing dress, followed.
The greatest interest of the crowd
| was aroused with the approach of the
first carriage, for in this rode the
queen mother. Her majesty, wearing
| the deepest mourning, had lifted her
veil and the people reverently raised
their hats to the pathetic figure who,
| even in her hour of her greatest grief.
| acknowledged the silent testimony of
| sympathy by bowling repeatedly. The
| queen mother was accompanied by her
sister, the Dowager Empress Marie of
Russia, and by her daughter, the Prin-
| cess Royal and Princess Victoria.
| Queen Mary occupied the second
state carriage, having for the occasion
surrendered the first place to which,
as queen, she was entitled Her ma
iesty was preceded by the sovereign's s
| escort, the only mounted troops par
| ticipating with the exception of few
stationed along the route.
Queen Mary was accompanied by her
daughter. Princess Mary, and Prince
Henry.
seven other state carriages, gold be-
decked and drawn by heavily capari-
soned horses. carried the women of the
royal families and the suites of the
queen mother and the queen.
Arrived at the palace of Westmin-
ster, where a dense throng had gath
cred, the gun carriage stopped, the
nails were removed and the bearer
company, composed of life guards,
lifted the casket and carried it into
the hall.
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