New Britain herald., 1925-11-27
.SOLEMN|TY MARKS
 FUNERAL SERVICE
Rites Are Accorded Late Dow
 aser Queen Today
BURIAL TO BE TOMORROW
All Of Lndon's Stores and Busi- ness Houses Close for Hour This Morning as Tribute to Memory of Queen Alexandra.

London, Nov. 27 tP --. Winter reaching out an icy hand, laid a tribute on the bier of the gentle Alexandra, England's queen moth- CT, today, covering her casket with q heecy blanket of snow as it was trundeled on a gun carriage from the Chapel Royal, in St. James palace 10 Westminster Abbey where the simplest of funeral serv- ices were held,
 Thus the sea kings daughter de parted from the capital of her adopted empire as she had entered 1t. for the snow was also falling on that distant day siXty-two years ago when she came from Denmark to be the bride of Edward VII. King Walks Alone
 Close behind the casket walking alone and with bowed head, came her son, the king of England, muf- fled in the great coat and wearing 1 the plumed hat of field marshal, which also received a coating of white flakes before the procession had gone far.
 Abreast behind this solitary fig ure came the Prince Of Wales and his brothers, and the crown prince of Rumania, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Belgium, with Lord Lascelles and other nobles who are married into the royal family.
 Under grey coats these royal fig ures wore the dress uniforms Of the ranks they hold either in the army or navy of Great Britain, but of the uniforms only the gold braided hats relieved the anstcrc shade. There was but single other spot of color - AlcXandra's own royal standard. with which tho casket was 1raped.
 Funeral Party Starts
 At the boom of q gun marking eleven o'clock the casket wa'
 brought from the Chapel Roya
 and placed on the same gun-car'
 riagc used at the funerals 0
 Queen Victoria and Edward VII The equerries of her majesty tool , their places on the carriage, and a
 a word of command the escortinl = companies of guards fell into step 3 King George emerged from tn , palace, and the procession bcgal - it's measured march through th l Mall, Trafalgar square and White
 hall.
 ' < Sad Procession. p Handkcrchiefs found the eyes 0 many and sobs were heard in th 6 for among them were some who ha I waited for hours in the cold and wet y foramong them were some who ha seen Alexandria pass up and dow V the same streets under clearer sliic !, and in happier circumstances.
 The soft, slow music to the ca
 dcnCc of which the procession mOl
 ed was stopped at the gun-carrag
 reached the entrance of the Abbe.
 and the coffin was carried into th darkcncd building on the hrOa N shoulders of eight guardsmcn, wh V placed it upon a Catafalque bcfoI
 the high altar.
 n In the Abbey. waiting for the a
 rival of the procession, was Quec
 Mary, dressed in deep black. her fac
 covered with a heavy veil, al
 around here were tn" Queens
 Spain, Norway, and Belgium, PriI ~ cess Mary the Duchess of York ar " several relatives.
 !" The Queen and her party h. IS driven directly from the palace, a q. irving more than a half hour bcfo ol the procession.
 70 Queen NiSibly Affected. iS Queen Mary was affected throug l. out the service. She raised her han T" kerChicf to her eyes when the cask 'S was brought into the abbey and SC C.. cral times found it impossible oi continue in the singing of [
 hymns.
 ;. The Archbishop of Cantorbu read the service, tho lessons and { IA collects, between which the hym
 were sung. A short blessing, as { r whole congregation llnelt, follow
 the last hymn and the quiet fun"' on rites were ended with God Sa
 the King"
 The King left his place, follow T. by the Queen and other royalties, N N the strains of Chopins fun" , march, and after their withdraw oS the congregation left silently, les II ing the caskct in the catafaIo ''u alone before tho altar of the gr II, church. The the building was n l,l tied the sun suddenly snone for u" m Continued on Page "@