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DEATH OF QUEEN ALEXANDRA,

LATEST DETAILS.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY NOVEMBER 2880, 1923

FUNERAL SERVICE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY NEXT FRIDAY,

We record with profound regret the death of H." Queen Alcxandra" A Reuter's cable on Saturday morning conveyed the news that Queen Alexandra passed away peacefully in the presence of the King and Queen and members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales and T.R.H. the Duke and Duchess of York, who had left London for Sand- ringham, did not arrive in time to see their grandmother before she died, owing to fog delaying the train

.news.

A number of functions in London were cancelled on receipt of the

The cables which reached the Colony on Friday had prepared the community for the sad intelligence

A. black-bordered Government Gazette Extraordinary, was issued on- Saturday morning containing the notification in these terms: —

"With deepest grief the Governor has to announce that Her Majesty QUEEN ALEXANDRA pasied away about 5 pm on the 20th November, 1995."*

Previous cables through Reuter's Agency, had informed us that Her Majesty, who was close ou 81 years of age, had a further heart attack on the 10th inst.; that her condition was critical and that great publie anxięty was manifested, it being understood that oxygen treatment had been freely resorted to in order to mitigate Her Majesty's sufferings.

His Majesty the King, who had received the news of his mother's illness while he was out shooting in his estate nearby, hastened with the Queen to the bedside of Queen Alexandra at Sandringham, and Queen Maud of Norway, who was in England was also summoned.

It has been officially announced that there will be full Court mourning for two months and half mourning for one month.-

"Alexandra the Well Beloved " and " Alexandra the Beautiful" are among the epithets applied, by the newspapers in columns of memoirs and articles paying tribute to the Queen Mother, whose death has plunged the Empire in sorTOW, The morning newspapers on Saturday all appeared

in infourning borders and published profuse pictures illustrative of the main incidents of Queen Alexandra's life.

Telegrams of condolence with the King in his hereavement, Reuter added, were pouring in from all parts, anong the first received being one - from the President of the United States.

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.The Lord Chamberlain has announced that the first part of the funeral service for the late Queen Alexandra will take place at 11.50 on Friday at Westminster Abbey.

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The remains of the late Queen Alexandra will be removed to London on Thursday, and deposited in the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, until the service in Westminster Abbey on Friday. The public will be admitted after the service until the evening when the coffin will be removed to Windsor for committal on Saturday,

A Reuter's message from Tokyo states that the Court has ordered mourning for eight days in connection with the death of Queen Alexandra and Baron Shidebara, the Foreign Minister, tendered condolences to H.B.M.'s Ambasador on Saturday morning.

THE COLONY'S CONDOLENCES. Immediately the news of the Queen Mother's deaths became know in Hong- kong flags were half-masted everywhere, and several social functione have been

and a word always spoken with love and admiration. He himself remembered" as

THE LATE QUEEN'S CAREER." Her late Majesty Queen Alexandra, who was the eldest daughter of King Christian IX. of Denmark was born on December 1st, 1944, and was thus just on 81 years of age.

At the time of her birth there seemed little likelihood of her father (then Prince Christian) succeeding to the Danish throne...

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In a study of the late Queen's life and personality by Mr. W. H. R. Troubridge, published few years ago some interest ing information is given regarding the Queen's upbringing.

Her state entry into London with the Prince of Wales was marked by" untoward events caused by the ineficiency of the police at that day, and by the intensei popular enthusiasm.

The state marriage took place in St. George's Chapel, Windsor, on March 10th, 1883. Of the royal guests the most conspicuous was the Crown Princess of Prussia (the British Princess Royal). As she advanced to her place a fiae little boy, all unmoved by the pomp around him, dragged on his mother's arm as be looked behind him, and was with difi- culty brought to his little feet to sur- She was taught to make her own clothes and instructed in the arts of mount the three steps of the haut par housekeeping.

"Punctuality was the This child, dressed in Highland costume, rule of the establishment, and to con-was destined to become many years later form to it was the most arduous of all Kaiser Wilhelm. II."

It was said of her by men that she the Princess's tasks. Fór unpunctuality at meals her father would make no allow made every woman in the room with anres. It was with the greatest difficulty her look frightful," and of this extra- imaginable that she could arrive in time ordinary grace her husband was singular for the blessing. She could never overly proud. come this failing, and even on ceremonial occasions, when punctuality is essential, her attendants were obliged to resort to many a subterfuge to enable her to be ready in time.”

THE LATE QUEEN AS A MOTHER.

As a mother she was unfaltering in her - attention to her children. Her first baby was horn two months before the expect ed date. She was at a hockey match on But this was her only fnult.. Of dress the ice of Virginia Water that day. and adorament she was fond, realising" Shortly after her return to Frogmore, that fairy princesses should not neglect however, she became, suddenly indispos externals. So early as 1839, when sheed. When the Prince arrived an hour was only 14. The Times suggested later he found her in travail and the that she would be the most elig household in a state of the greatest con- ible lady." to marry Prince fusion. Nothing was in readiness for the of Wales, afterwards Edward VII event. The nurses did not reach Frog. The suggestion was not popular in Germore till two in the morning." many, where it was reported in the news

She always found time to be with her papers, and generally believed, that the

children: She was in her glory,' re "Princess of Prince would marry

lates Mrs. Blackburn, the head nurse, Prussia." This project, however, was greeted with such sarcastic comment" when she could run up to the nursery, in the British Press that it was oppor- put on a fannel apron, wash, the child- rea herself, and ree them asleep in their tunely dropped. "The field was clear.

little beds."

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Attention was drawn to the young Princess by Sir Augustus. Paget," British Minister at Copenhagen. He told his wife, Lady Paget: "I know the pret. tiest, the nicest the most charming Princess-Princess Alix, the eldest dangh ter of Prince Christian, the future King of Denmark. She is only sixteen, and as good as she is pretty!"

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She rode either side and alwayɑ, show- ed "a total lack of even fear," even in Russia, where there danger of Nihilist outrages, or when the Belgian Sipids fired at the Prince of Wales as he sat by her side.

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INFLUENCE ON, FASHION.

In her earlier years Queen Alexandra The Princess Royal, afterwards the exercised a great influence on fashion: Empress Victoria of Germany, Queen Vic-"The Princess's characteristics were ex- torin's eldest daughter, was informed of ftreme heatness and great simplicity, the discovery; when her orders were: united to grace and dignity. There was You must tell the Queen as soon as you never anything extreme in design, shape, can go to England, and find out all you or colour." enn in the meantime."

Lady Paget carried out this request.

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THE CORONATION

On King Edward's coronation in West- a child the thatched cottage of an older efforts were seconded by the Prin minster Abbey, in.1002 she was crowned pensant woman in the Highlands whose cess Royal, who saw Princess Alexandra, with him, and after his death lived in tenant exhibited with pride the pair of and returned saying: "She is the most retirement until 1919, when to some ex- postponed including St. Andrew's Ball stockings which the Princess had fascinating creature in the world. You tent Her Majesty resumed her public ap- Among other things the Dances at the taken out of her bands and partly knitted did not say nearly enough. For a long pearances amid general gratification.

time I have not seen anybody who Hongkong Hotel and the Repulse Bay whilst chatting familiarly by her fireside. Hotel on Saturday. were cancelled.

Throughout the whole countryside pleases me so much as this lovely and Members of the Executive and Legisla-around the Royal summer home she was charming girl.” tive Councils have been requested to beloved by every creature, and in the attend a meeting of the Councils to be

more public ways of life the same simple held in the Council Chamber at 9.30 this morning, when the following resolu- tion will be moved :-

"That the members of the Executive and Legislative Councils have heard with profound sorrow the sad announce- ment of the death of Her late Majesty

their humble duty and to express their most heartfelt loyal and respectful sym. pathy with Their Majesties the King and Queen and the Royal Family in their bereavement."

"collections.

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MEETING WITH THE PRINCE. Queen Victoria was favourably impress

HIGH STANDARD OF DUTY. Her Inte Majesty was President of the London Hospital, and gave innumerable proofs of her pity for suffering of sorrow- ing humanity. She took the keenest per- sonal interest in the work of the Rad Cross Society.·

and engaging qualities drew forth a like ed by the reports, and a meeting was During the war iher great power was response.

sacrifice and simple Edelity to duty For over three score years she made arranged with the Prince of Wales. as resolutely exerted in favour of sell her home not only in our country but in took place at Speyer, on the Rhine, in Through all the terrible years of the Queen Alexandra remained faithfully the hearts of its people. It was a rare 1861, and the Prince Consort, reported great struggle," says A bjögrapher, "the young people seem to have and courageously in London, helping and and long record of love and good works, that

consoling Her physical courage was and now that she rested from her labours taken a mutual liking to one another." her works would follow ber. It happened, From fear of German hostility, great sustained by her steadfast soul, Gentle and uncomplaining, she went about Queen Alexandra and desire to tender Mr. Maconachie continued, that the day caution was exercised by Queen Victoria always, in the same simple-little-black the London streets were blazing with had been appointed for their hospital in announcing the engagement, and her dress, doing her errands of mercy while first meeting with the Princess took place jewellery and furs, and the sounds of Queen Alexandra's deep concem for

in curious circumstances: "While wait-revelry at night were mingled with the

booming of the Zeppelin bombs. hospital work had beer of incalculable

ing for the Princess and her mother to value to that so characteristic expression arrive, Queen Victoria Bat in a small of Christian charity, and it was certain boudoir. To the dismay of Lady Paget. that she who had passed away would who was alone with her, and on whom value far above the most eloquent utter the burden of the presentation had been ances a generous response to the more pinced, "the Queen suddenly "burst into in connection with the deplorable loss of practical appeal which gave an immediate Submarine .1 with all bands. Dr. opportunity of shewing an esteem which Duppuy, on ascending the pulpit, said:" was more than words, idle words."

At the close of the Servier the funeral

PULPIT REFERENCES.

One of first pulpit references was made by the Bishop of Victoria on Saturday morning at the Memorial Service at St. John's Cathedral which had been arranged

Within an hour of coming here the

news was given me of the passing away

of Alexandra, the Queen Mother. This march was played, the congregation stand

cannot be our official Memorial Service ing but it would not be fitting if I did not

try to give some expression of the feeling

THE COLONY'S MEMORIAL SERVICE.

of our hearts which unite in proud thank A Memorial Service is to be. held in fulness for her life, and in respectful sym- St. John's Cathedral on Friday morning pathy for the members of the Royal next synchronising with the national ser Family who have bound themselves, with vice in Westminster Abbey, such ties of affection to their nation's life.

and who are this day bereaved."

ANDREW'S BALL POSTPONED:

tears."

Once only the Queen murmured, and that was when she was told she must give up her beloved hersee and dogs: Only the very smallest minimum was left to her, as her much-straitened income was not sufficient to keep so many pets.

It was a bitter sacrifice, for Queen's are aften lonely, and dogs are their sincerest

friends."

"Rose Day" or as it is frequently She was thinking of the Prince Con- called "Alexandra Day" has always Ita celebration in 1023, when Her Majesty sort and her lors of a husband's love. But been a brilliant success in her honour. quite enchanted" with her future England was made the occasion ola the tears pussed off and the Queen was had completed. 60 years residence in special demonstration in her honoure daughter-in-law. Not for several days Well over a million pounds sterling bas did the official news of the betrothal ap been raised for philanthropy by the pear and then in an obscure corner happy idea associated with the name and of The Timirs, which, probably by royal personality of Queen Alezandra. request, printed it without comment, to avoid aunoying Pressia.

"LONDON 18 MY HOME." London. always had a very warm corner WEDDING JEWELS,

in its heart for Queen Alexandra as its Her departure from Denmark for wonderful demonstrations whenever she the marriage was regarded as Androve through the streets amply deman event of national importance. The strated. She reciprocated the feeling to King of Denmark gave her the the lull, as she showed on many occa most magnificent of wedding pro tions in the past London my senta It contained 2,000 brilliants home, the declared, on a memorable co and 118 pearls, the two largest of which casion years ago. It had been her cus and been exhibited at the International tom to pass the greater part of her year Ehibition at the Crystal Palace near at Marlborough House, and if London. the Koh-i-noor. From this splendid has seen rather less got her in recent jewel depended a facsimile of the cele years, it was only because her physicians an.brated Dagmar Cross, in which, was set advised her that the pure air of Band La fragment reputed to belong to the True ringham, with its invigorating breezes Cross with a plece of silk, taken from the from the neighbouring Norfolk coast, hag

a more beneficial effect upon her. grave: of King. Canute."

TRIBUTE AT UNION CHURCH, At Union Church yesterday morning the Rev. J. Kirk Maconachie, when making

It is announced that owing to the death the announcements, referred to the death of late Queen Alexandra as having deca of HM Queen Alexandra, the Stewards sioned a sense of personal toss amongst of St. Andrew's Society have decided to all classes of society. No one present, postpone the Ball to a date to be he said, could remember a time when nounced later. The Best practice ar her name had not been a household word, ranged for to-morrow is also postponed.

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