A message to the nation from Queen Alexandra was issued
on Tuesday night. "From the depth of my poor broken heart," the Queen writes, "I wish to express to the whole Nation and our kind People we lore so well my deep-felt thanks for all their touching sympathy in my overwhelming sorrow and unspeakable anguish. Not alone have I lost everything in Him, my beloved Husband, but the Nation, too, has suffered an irreparable loss by their best friend, Father, and Sovereign thus suddenly called away. May God give us all His Divine help to bear this heaviest of crosses which He has seen fit to lay upon us—. His Will be done.' Give me a thought in your prayers which will comfort and sustain me- in all I still have to go through. I confide my dear Son into your care, who I know will follow in his dear Father's footsteps, begging you to show him the same loyalty and devotion you showed his dear Father. I know that both my dear Son and Daughter-in-law will do their utmost to merit and keep it." This is a letter which does not call for comment It is enough to say that ita spirit lends peculiar appropriateness to the title of "Queen Mother" by which Queen Alexandra, at her own desire, will in future be known.
