![]() Three years before her death, Queen Victoria had written that she wanted a state funeral with military honors-the same template royal funerals follow to this day. The Duke of Norfolk luckily had some guidance. “Indeed, it will be lucky if these two ceremonial dignitaries don’t come to loggerheads.” “The Lord Chamberlain is very sorry, and is likely to decline to give assistance,” one contemporary noted, per Richards. The Duke of Norfolk, also the earl marshal, prevailed (the present earl marshal, Edward Fitzalan-Howard, 18th Duke of Norfolk, is currently arranging the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II), causing bad blood between the two camps. It was altogether a curious scene.”Ī fight also broke out between Henry Fitzalan-Howard, 15th Duke of Norfolk and Edward Hyde Villiers, Lord Chamberlain-over who had the royal right to arrange the funeral. He was so unsuitable a person, as it appeared to me, that we declined to leave him (as he wished) in the room to take the necessary measurements, and as a matter of fact the measurements were taken by the emperor, Reid, and myself, under the direction of the man, who stood by and told us exactly what he wanted. ![]() ![]() “The emperor frightened the poor fellow into helpless obedience. “If the occasion had been a less grave and solemn one, there would have been much that was humorous in the emperor’s harangue to the rather dull undertaker’s assistant,” Randall Davidson, Bishop of Winchester recalled. ![]()
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