Evening star., 1925-11-22
RITES FOR QUEEN
WILL Be SIMPLE
Interment to Take Place
Saturday in Westmin-
ster Abbey.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. November 2l-Th, ut
most simplicity marks the funeral
arrangements for the iuterment of
the Queen Mother Alexandra. who
viii be laid beside her husband, King
Edward VII under the Albert Me
mortal Chapel at the medieval
stronghold Windsor Castle. where
they We're married.
The first part OF the service will
be solemnized at Westminster Abbey
Friday morning, but the intermeDt
Will take place at 1870 Saturday
morning, November 2S. Through out
the last rites for the Queen mother
TIE tributes VIII be like those Of
friends for a revered and beloved
woman and will be conducted with
out much of the funeral pageantry
customary TO royalty.
After the body has been removed
from SandrinGham house TO the
LitchS in the village of Sandringham
tomorrow, il Will remain there until
Thursday, when the King and Queen
and other members of the royal fam
lily, villagers and retainers will walk
in solemn procession behind it to VOL
verton Station. from which it Will be
brought 10 London. The funeral
ceremonies here will he similar To
those Of the simplest British subject.
Body to Lie in State.
The coffin will be placed in the
chapel of st. James Palace Thursday
night and from there will be removed
TO Westminster Abbey early Friday
with troops attending and a limit ed
ceremonial The public will be ad-
mitted during the afternoon.
In tho evening 1t will be taken to
Windsor Castle, and throughout all
the proceedings watchers will he de-
tailed to keep vigil. This arrange
ment begins Immediately after the re
rnoval OF the body to Sandrineham
Church tomorrow when those on
guard will be employees Of the royal
household
Only members Of the royal family
and the late Queens household will
attend the committal service. after
which the body will be placed tenn
porarily in the royal tomb house un-
der the chapel until the sarcophagus
now being erected in the chapel for
Edward VII and Alexandra is com
pleted.
King George today approved the
arrangement whereby the court goes
into mourning for three months, the
first two months full mourning and
the remaining month half mourning.
Servants See Remains.
After family service in the death
room this morning there was an in
formal lying -in-state for the house
mold. tenants, retainers and pen
sioners. The Queen Mother reposed
on the bed on which she died and over
which a beautiful pale pink coverlet
had been spread; there We're a few
simple flowers In the room.
Although the queen s. death affects
the social and business life of the
whole country, certain events of i'm
portance cannot be delayed. The
signing Of the Locarno treaties at
London will take place December /,
but the elaborate ceremonies in con-
nection with this will be considerably
curtailed. perhaps entirely abandoned,
the procedure being merely the formal
s,ffiXing of signatures by the premiers.
The state banquet at buckingham
Palace and the lord mayors luncheon
at Guild Hall on that day and Premier
| Baldwin's luncheon December viii
| likely be cancelled.
The House of Commons will not ad-
| journ, but on the day of the funeral
will not be in session until after the
services.