The Washington times., 1921-04-11
EX-EMPRESS
TO Be BURIED
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Wilhelm May Ask Allies for Per.
mission to Attend Services
In Potsdam.
RITES SET FOR WEDNESDAY
Death Ends Long IIIness-Hus.
band and Youngest Son
At Bedside.

Empress Augusta Victoria, of Ger
mnny. died at Doom castle at q
o'clock this morning. The death
bulletin. signed by Court Marshal
Won GOntard. rcadt
"Her majesty the Empress and
queen Augusta Victoria died this
morning at o'clock after q long
hhness- Funeral services will be
held mt Potsdam."
The ex-kRiser and Prince Adal-
bert, her youngest son, were at the
ex-kaiserin's bedside when the end
came. They left her apartnents
hmm ediately after her death.
The tollinE of bells In the church
steepies Of Doom announced the
death to the public here.
Former Crown Prince Frfeaerteh
Wilhelm fs reported on the way 10
Doom from the Island OF Wierip-
gen. His brothers also are hasfea-
Ing to Doom to attend the funeral
services.
The ex-kaiser will accompany
the body ss far ms the forntier.
LONDON, April i1.-Augusta
Victoria, ex-empress of Germany,
is dead at Castle Dooru, according
to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam received here at
1870 O'Clock this morning.
The Kaiserin died at 6 O'Clock
this morning. She was sixty-three
years old. Besides her husband,
William Hohenzollern, she leaves
six sons and a daughter. On Feb
ruary q she and Wilhelm had cele-
brated their fortieth wedding an
niversary.
ILL MANY MONTHS.
The former Empress had been .uf-
fering from heart disease for many
months.
The funeral is expected to take
place in Potsdam. where preparations
for her being laid to rest in the his
toric mausoleum were completed some
time ago.
Services will be held at Doom Cas-
tie prior to transfer of the body of
to Germany
There was keen specuIat on here to-
day as to whether the ex-kaiser viii
request the allies to permit him TO
go to Potsdam to attend the funeral
later dispatch said the body
would be taken to Potsdam on We'd
nesday Services will be held at
Doom in strict privacy. only the i'm
mediate family to be present
POPULAR WITH GERMANS.
Not since Queen Louise has there
been woman on the Prussian throne
whose universal popularity, prior to
the world war. could compare with
that OF Augusta Victoria, the con-
sort OF the eS-Kalser William II.
"A pearl among women" was the
emperor's own estimate of his wife
and that sentiment found a warm
echo in the hearts of all loyal Ger
mans. She was an ideal mother. a
faithful and helpful wife, a model
housekeeper and warmhearted.
sympathetic queen. devoted to her
family and her people, all Germans
agreed.
Ex-Empress Augusta Victoria wa.
born on October %, 1858, at the
Castle of Dolzig, as the daughter OF
the late Duke Friedrich Of SchleswiE.
Holstein Sonderburg -Augustenburg.
Her father. the Grand Duke of Schlos-
wig Holstein. was comparatively poor
and his wife and daughters were COM
PEELED to practice the most rigid
economy. The princess was taught 10
cook and sew, to carry the keys OF
the linen closet, to look after the
household duties and what time she
had left she devoted to the study OF
piano and violin and to acquiring n
fair knowledge Of French and Eng
lish.
All her early years the princess
spent in the happy and frugal circle
OF her family, devoted to her domestic
duties and always too busy to give
any time to the reading of novels or
any frivolous emuscmenta There
was never the suspicion Of a romance
in her life until she had reached tbs
twenty-second year OF her life and
was asked to marry Prince Friedrich
wilhelm, the eldest grandson Of EN-
peror William l. rhere was nothing
in that offer to appeal to the girls
heart. although it might havc ap-
pealcd to her ambition.
1t was not n love match but q mar
riage dictated by state reasons only.
The young prince. who was a few
months younger than his prospective
bride. was at that time desperately
In love with his cousin. the sIdasf