Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-11
.BROKEN-HEARTED
QUEEN BARES HER
GRIEF TO NATION
Alexandra Sends Pitiful Message
to Her People COnfiding
Them Her Son
PRAY FOR ME- SHE WRITES
Sailor Kings Chief Thought for
Navy, Which He Thanks
for Loyalty
PRAY FOR ME- SHE WRITES
rAssociated Press1

T ONDON, May 10.-While the rulers
and representatives of foreign ma
- tions are assembling here for the
obsequies of King Edward, the various
necessary formalities incident to the
sad event gradually are being COM
pleted.
The widowed queen has sent touch
ing personal message to the nation,
written in unassuming style and re-
calling similar intimate messages
Queen Victoria was in the habit Of
addressing to her people.
A message also has gone from the
king to the Indian princes and people,
expressive of his gratitude for their
sympathy.
Queen Alexandra's message to the
nation follows:
From the depth of my poor broken
heart wish to express to the whole
nation and our kind people we love 50
well, my deep felt thanks for all their
touching sympathy in my overwhelm-
ing sorrow and unspeakable anguish.
mot alone have l lost everything in
him, my beloved husband, but the ma
tion, too, has suffered an irreparable
loss when their best friend, father and
sovereign thus was suddenly called
away May God give us all his divine
help to bear this heaviest of crosses
which he has seen fit to lay upon us.
His will be DONE
ASKS FOR PEOPLES PRAYERS
"Give to me thought in your pray
ers which will comfort and sustain me
in all that have to go through. Let
me take this opportunity of expressing
my heartfelt thanks for all the touch
ing letters and tokens of sympathy
1 have received from all classes, high
and low, rich and poor, which are so
numerous that fear 1t would be I'M
possible for me to thank everybody in
dividually
"I confide my dear son into your
care, who, I know, will follow in his
dear fathers footsteps, begging you
to show him the same loyalty and de-
votion you showed his dear father. I
know both my dear son and daughter
in-law will do their utmost to merit
and keep it."
One of the first messages issued by
King George, who has long been known
as the Sailor Prince" was addressed
to the navy. In it the king said:
''It is my earnest wish on succeeding
to the throne to make known to the
navy how deeply grateful I am for its
IdllUlul anu ulSIlOu NiNCo
rendered to the late king, my beloved
father, who ever showed the greatest
solicitude for it's welfare and eff
ficiency."
The cabinet today decided to intro
duce bill amending the declaration of
the king wherein he asserts his disbe-
lief in transubstantiation and alteration
of the Virgin and saints, and that he
makes declaration without mental res
ervation or dispensation from the pope
or other authority.
For the declaration that the forego-
ing dedaration and mass "are super
stitious and idolatrous" it is proposed
to substitute the words "are contrary
to my belief and to omit reference to
the pope.
The majority of parliament is be-
Iieved to be in favor of these changes,
but the Orangemen and extreme Prot
estants will oppose them. The Catho-
lies wish the entire declaration abol-
ished, but the law officers of the crown
consider such a safeguard against a
Catholic monarch necessary.