Word: queenly
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...state funeral procession brought the body to Westminster Abbey, amid the booming of minute guns and the strains of Handel's dead march from "Saul," which changed to Chopin's funeral march as the Abbey was reached. The coffin was again borne on the gun carriage, draped with the Queen Mother's royal standard. But this time detachments of the Royal Air Force, the Life Guards, the Horse Guards and the Royal Marines took the place of the lone cavalry officer of the. day before...
...early dawn, the body was conveyed as privately as possible to Windsor; and there, in the Albert Memorial Chapel, the last and strictly private rites were performed in the presence of only the British royal family and the Kings of Norway and Denmark, the Queen of Norway, Prince George of Greece and the Princess, and Prince Olaf of Norway...
...late the Siamese Official Gazette has been busy with the tribulations of King Rama VI, enlightened monarch of Siam. Some two months ago it announced that he had decided to "demote" Queen Lakshmi because she had not borne him an heir (TIME, Oct. 26). One month ago it chronicled the "promotion" of handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to the rank of Queen, adding that a royal birth, the first in Siam for 32 years, was shortly expected (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week it deplored amid bitter lamentations a swift two-edged blow of fate...
...child of King Rama by his newly promoted Queen proved to be a girl-incapable of inheriting the throne according to Siamese law. And two days later King Rama, broken, disappointed, wracked by acute gastritis and abdominal abscesses, died, at 44, mourned all but universally by his nine million subjects...
...royal birth and a royal death, the Gazette likewise trumpeted the Siamese equivalent for "Long Live The King!" Oval faced, almond eyed, inscrutable, Prince Pracha Tipok, ascended the throne of his unfortunate brother with the thankful gravity of one whose star, long dimmed, at length shines brightly. His Queen, by nature plump and radiant as a full-waxed moon, assumed likewise a fitting decorum. Both joined in extending what comfort they might to handsome Chao Chom Suvadena, Queen for a few anguished weeks, "demoted" by death...