The death of Princess Victoria, the sister of ding George V and Queen Maud of Norway puts the Court into mourning at the end of one of the greatest yeats of celebration since the days of Queen Victoria. On July 8 this year, Princess Vieloria observed her sixty-seventh birthday—ineidentally, on the same day that Their Majesties celebrated the forty-recond, anniversary of their marriage. The late Princess Victoria was never as much in the limelight as her brothers, sisters, and nephews, preferring live a quiet and semi-secluded life away from the noise and bustle of modern publicity. She was the fourth child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and she never married. From the' brief cable messages an~ nouncing the bereavement that haa overtaken the Royal Family, her death was unexpected, On" Sunday she suffered a severe haemorrhage and though everything was done for liber, she died after only a few hours illness. There will be every sympathy With the Royal Family in their loss, which has entailed the second change in the pageantry which was to have brought the Silver Jubilee Year an inspiring close. The King, who was to have opened Parliament yesterday with all the gorgeous ceremonial attendant on that occasion, cancelled his plans and the King's speech was read by the Lord Chane cellor, Viscount Hailsham, 'The frst change in the Jubilee Year's pageantry. occurred, It will be recalled, when the death of' the Duke of Buecleuch, the father of the present Duchess of Gloucester, came shortly before' the Duke and Duchess's wedding, causing the cancellation of the arrangements 'p, hold the ceremony in Westminster
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