CHINA MAIL SUPPLEMENT
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1952
The King Goes To London For The Last Time
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The pictures on these two pages vividly illustrate this sad interlude in British history. Above, the coffin on a gun carriage, draped with the Royal Standard, moves slowly from Sandringham to Wolfterton Station to begin the late King's last journey to London. Lining the road are saddened tenants of the Sandringham estate. Right, the coffin, followed by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Duke of Gloucester, pass the Cenotaph in Whitehall en route to Westminster Hall.
THROUGHOUT last week sorrowing homage was paid to the memory of the late King George VI.
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"HE gun carriage, and the coffin arrive outsido Westminster Hall after the long march from King's Cross **Station. The bearer party of the King's Company, Grenadier Guards, aro soon carrying the coffin into Westminster Hall. Under the canopy stood the Queen, the Queen Mother and Queen Mary, all in deep mourning. With them.was Princess Margaret.
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FTER the draped coffin, on which rested the Imperial Crown and a single wreath, had been borne into Westminster Hall, it was placed on a purple-draped catafaiquo, flanked by candles, for the lying in Around it, stood guards with bowed heads and reversed-halbords. When this picture was taken All pictures by Renter Photos, Ltd.
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the guard was being changed.