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...Alexandra's physicians announced that "Her Majesty, who for some time past has been failing in health, has suffered a severe heart attack"; and at once King George and Queen Mary hastened to her bedside, at Sandringham, in Norfolk. Already there were George's three sisters, Louise, the Princess Royal; the Princess Victoria; and Queen Maud of Norway. At London a special train waited, with steam up, ready at an instant's notice to speed the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York toward Sandringham, should their grandmother be declared upon the point of death...
Queen Alexandra, although usually described as "the eldest daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark," was not, curiously enough, born of the blood royal. At the time of her birth, in 1844, her father was only "Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Gluücksburg," a younger son of a somewhat minor German house. Not until the death of King Frederick VII of Denmark, when the reigning house of Denmark became extinct, was Christian elected king of Denmark by popular vote, in 1863. Thus it chanced that Alexandra and her sister Dagmar spent their youth as impecunious though radiantly beautiful princesses...
...Carlisle (whose daughter married Baron Frederick von Versen, one of the Kaiser's aides, before the War): "It was just like the old days at Potsdam! . . . The ex-Kaiser's Lord Chamberlain met me at Utrecht with a luxurious limousine. . . .At Doorn I found if not a royal palace at least a most sumptuous residence...
...died. He was a slim lad, slender, sapplingesque. Nothing so became him as his burial. The world's chief artificers buzzed about him. They stretched him out. His hands, as tired as a pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been. Thirteen finger-rings, all different, they slipped upon...
...reconstruction of the tale of this magnificent interment was slowly accomplished last week by Howard Carter and colleagues in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Luxor. After three years of laborious archeology, the diggers opened the royal coffin for the first time. Greatest secrecy attended the event, the pride-swollen, dog-in-the-manger Egyptian officials having exacted a stipulation that no news was to be telegraphed to the archeologically-minded world except the "official communiques" issued to the Egyptian press, which is glumly uninterested in the proceedings...