The Archive · 1936

Service Broadcast

The funeral service was simultane oonsly broadcast. to 20 countries.

"The foreign royalty who attended the funeral included King Haakon of Norway, King Christian of Denmark, King Boris of Bulgaria, King Carol of Rumania, King Leopold of the Belgians, Queen Maud of Norway. (ihe only living sister of the late King George), Crown Prince Dav of Norway, the Count of Flanders, Prince Axel of Denmark, the Crown Princess of "Denmark, the Queen Mother Marie of Rumania, the Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia, and Prince Umberto of Piedmont, heir to the Tlallan throne, Other royalty included the Crown Prince and. Princess of Sweden, Prince George of Greece, the Prince Consort of Luxemburg, the Crown Prince Farouk of Egypt, Prince Salth of Albania, Prince Chula Chakrabonse of Slam, Prince Frederich of Prussia, Prince Ernst Augustus of Brunswick, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Prince Alvaro of Bourbon-Orleans.

'Other leading foreign representa. tives Present Included fr. Norman Davis, of the United States, Presldent' Lebrun of France, " Signor Grandi, Italian Ambassador in London, Baron von Neurath, German Foreign Minister, and M. Litvinoff, Soviet Foreign Commissar, 'A notable absentee from the procession was Mr. Stanley Baldwin, th Prime Minister, who, with some representatives, went

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