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...coffin lay in the small chancel of Sandringham Church, where the Dowager Queen Alexandra had so often worshiped before her death (TIME, Nov. 30). As the days passed, thousands of mourners arrived in motor cars and on foot, giving silent testimony to how completely the onetime Princess Alexandra of Denmark had won the hearts of her English subjects. Meanwhile a light and powdery snow sifted down upon the Sandringham estates, famed country retreat of Edward VII and Alexandra. At length the same gun carriage which had served King Edward on his last earthly journey rumbled ominously to Sandringham Church...
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...
...sickly young shoemaker of Odense, in Fünen, Denmark, married when he was 20 a woman still younger than himself and was very well content when she bore him a son. They called the baby Hans Christian, and all three lived together, with little to eat, in a room which was also the home of their fine black...
...That no disciplinary action would be taken against Immigration Commissioner H. H. Curran, who two months ago attacked the new system of examining immigrants abroad rather than at Ellis Island. (This system, tried out in England and Ireland, is apparently pleasing to foreign countries. Belgium, Germany, Holland, Sweden and Denmark have asked to have it extended to them...
...Customs Conference proceeded with its sessions in the magnificent Winter Palace of the old Forbidden City. And the delegates, secretaries, assistants, representing the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Japan and China*- with those of Norway, Sweden and Denmark participating by special adherence-swelled the assembly to well over 500 persons, of whom more than half were Chinese, all but one Occidentally clad...