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Ferdinand's Funeral. Three Greek Orthodox services were performed over the body of King Ferdinand: the first at the Castle in Sinaia, where he died; the second in the Chapel Royal of the Cotroceni Palace, in Bucharest; and the last at the ancient Cathedral of Curtea de Arges, a still medieval town 100 miles from Bucharest, where Rumania's royal ties lie buried. At the three services great censers filled the air with smoking perfume, and in Bucharest the priests intoned a resonant Gregorian chant, while the bearded Patriarch stood robed in Biblical and almost regal splendor. Cried the Dowager...
...Curtea de Arges, the Dowager Queen Marie broke down completely, and sobbed aloud, swooned. She recovered at last, sufficiently to lay upon the grave a wreath of lilies, which she had picked herself, and a large pillow of white roses sent from Paris by Prince Carol. Near her there stood during the ceremony her son-in-law, King Alexander of Jugoslavia, her brother-in-law, Prince Hohenzollern-Sigmarigen, and the deposed King George II of Greece. Airplanes dropped flowers, and the earth trembled slightly at a long farewell salute of 101 guns...