Word: royalities
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...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...
King George, the Crown Prince Olaf of Norway,* the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York and Prince Henry were present, together with Queen Mary, Queen Maud of Norway,? the Princess Victoria,? Princess Marie of Greece and a few other royal notables...
Throughout the entire distance, a single artillery officer on horseback led the procession. King George, with his sons and Prince Olaf, followed the gun carriage on foot, clad in long black overcoats and tall silk hats; while the ladies of the royal party, heavily veiled, rode in three two-horse closed carriages. The rear guard of the procession was brought up by the 77-year-old Earl of Leicester, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk, who walked at the head of practically the entire personnel of the Queen Mother's Sandringham estates...
...avoid the assembly of large crowds until the state funeral next day, the very station at which the train would arrive was kept secret up to the last moment. Eventually the locomotive thundered into King's Cross, and although all haste was made in transferring the coffin to the Royal Chapel of St. James's Palace, where the body was to rest over night, a crowd of some 1,500 persons gathered before the auto-hearse before the royal motors could be got under...
...riches of the find are significant not only because they are rich but actually because they are surprisingly unique. Never before has a royal diadem of Egypt been unearthed. And even the minor trappings of the royal person have hitherto been scarcely above ground. The reason is that previously discovered mummies have been stripped by thieves before the savants got at them. Every yield of ancient splendor laughs ironically at Egypt's squalorous fellaheen of today...