The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-23

%AN#AANs t4@G 0SeAA WCck1A3 8lN[8 AACSA- Iios or black arm bands, the women Black, black and white, gray or tnauve prescribed for public mourn Ing. Awaiting the body on plat form No. l of Kings Gross station in north central London was small allard of honor of the three fighting services, navy, army and air force, and a pallbearer party from the Mfng's own company of the Grenadier Guards.
 There was a gun carriage of the royal horse artillery.
 Imperial Crown There
 Under guard waited the imperial crown of Britain, with its star of Africa diamond, its black prince xuby, its Queen Elizabeth pearls, its Stuart sapphire, and 3,0o3 lesser Jewels, 2,703 of them diamonds, the worlds most valuable and most beautiful crown. Its place was on top the standard that covered the kings coffin on its gun carriage. The order of procession was of the 6implest-a line of mounted police men. the gun carriage fianked by 8 ecrporal's guard of grenadiers. King Edward VIII and his brothers the Dukes of York, Gloucester and Kent, the Earl of Harewood, hus- band of the princess royal-Princess Mary, King Georges only daughter, and q few members of the late kings Household and 8 closing line of mounted police. Nobody else par- ticipated.
 Relatives Leave Body
 Queen Mary, the princess royal, Inc royal duchesses and their ladies 1l1 waiting left the body at the sta- ton and went to Westminster hall uirect by carriage. Thousands upon Thousands janlmed the route to Westminster hall, through Euston road, southward through Woburn , place, Southampton row, Kingsway and Aldwych, westward along the old Strand parellelling the Thomas, into Trafalgar square, down White hall past Horse Guards parade where each year King George re- viewed proudly his household troops on the occasion of his birthday, into Parliament square, then into New Palace square before the houses of parliament of which Westminster hall is a part. Across the street was Westminster Abbey where four kings, queens, crown princes and Brown princesses, princes and prin- seesses, g president, statesmen of annany countries-Norman H. Davis, thief naval conference delegate and rowing ambassador for the United States--will attend funeral services Tuesday.
 Royal Family at Bier
 1t was arranged for the royal family to gather round the bier as soon as the coffin was placed on its catalfalque in the center of the great timber roofed hall, candleabra sht the corners, carpet covering the worn stone floor.
 They were to hear the Arch bishop of Canterbury officiate at a brief service, then to leave so that members of the houses of lords and Commons could pay their respects. The body will lie in state frora 8 70. m. to 10 D. m. tomorrow, Satur- tiay, Sunday and Monday. There will be no distinction as to visitors. Each, sanigh or low, must take his place in 9ine to pass the body. No place sholders will be permitted. In the sl1ail the body of the dead king will lie for five days in an atmosphere e.snta ao cn,1Id eiyrrofin. if Y0Wh aro .else. King William II started build ring the hall in the 11th century. Henry III and Edward I continued 1t. It is called the finest timber aroofed hall in Europe, 240 feet long, r6e feet wide, 92 feet high, an un- abrowen sweep of floor leading to a -stone dais.
 In the Olden Days
 Eight hundred and more years @ago the royal courts used to meet in SWestminster hall. Then the houses -of parliament. Two kings were de- Aciared deposed there. Coronation .celebrations were held under it's wooden roof with their beams ter Hminating in wooden angels. Here Edward III entertained the captive ' kings of Scotland and France 600 ~years ago. Charles I was condemned z to death in the hall, and Richard v Cromwell hailed as successor. War ~ren Hastings was acquitted here in z 1795 after a seven years trial. Out \ side in old palace yard Guy Hawkes. z. was executed, after being con- ' xdemned in the hall, for his gum ' powder plot by which he hoped to ' blow up parliament, and Sir Walter ' Raleigh lost his head.
 q Final Resting Place < Mex. Tuesday the kings and < queens will pay their respects. The !. body will be taken in state process :, sion, this tune one of glittering ,. pon1p, to Baddington station, and ,. then, after the rail journey to Wind- { sor, laid in its tomb in St. Georges z chapel, Frogmore, Windsor, near !. near the bodies of Edward VII and ,. Alexandria, the dead kings father ' and mother; Henry ", Henry VI z Henry VIII, Charles I, George III \ and William ".
 ' Crowds Along Route {. By noon today the crowds were { damned along the route from \ Kings Cross station to Westminster {. hall.
 Z The station and business houses \ near the station were draped in purple and black.
 / At Westminster hall workmen finished stretching a gray carpet :. from the main entrance to the hall. The late kings catafalque was in < the exact center of the h all, draped Z with black and purple velvet, edged ' with gold.
 As the royal funeral train ap- . preached, London broadcasting sta- z tions were silenced, to broadcast l only the quarterly hour strokes from "Bie Ben" the clock in the