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...funeral cortege will reach St. George's Chapel at Windsor about 8:15 o'clock (Eastern Standard time). Beginning at 8:30 o'clock, two minutes of silence will be observed throughout Great Britain and elsewhere in the Empire...
Next will come a brief service conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, assisted by the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of Windsor...
...Windsor...
...Home Secretary telephoned the news to the King at Sandringham Hall. His Majesty awoke the rest of the House of Windsor and for a while they all stood about in dressing gowns. Back in London, when the guns in the Tower of London boomed out, a knot of stay-ups formed in front of No. 3 Belgrave Square, sent up a considerately small cheer. Sir John, his duty done, had already gone home...
...Briton frequently seen by Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George is the new Governor General put forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's name town, Windsor, schooled at Eton across the Thames, decorated by Queen Victoria for bravery as a camel corps commander in the Sudan, and sent to Australia by King Edward as Military Secretary to its Governor General in 1908. Desperately wounded at Gallipoli, he received the D. S. O. from King...