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Tire Queen visited the Queen Dowager, at Marlborough Howe, on Mon- day; was visited, at Buckingham Palace, on the same day, by the Dutchess of Kent; and gave Lord John Russell an audience.
The Royal Family left town, for Osborne, on Wednesday ; and are now there, in good health.
The funeral of the late Princess Sophia took place on Tuesdarraorning, at Kensall Green Cemetery: Prince Albert, the Duke of -Cambridge, and Prince George, were present; and representatives of the King of Hanover, and the Dutehesses of Kent, Cambridge, and Gloucester.
The funeral procession was perfectly unostentatious: it left the residence of the Princess in Vicarage Place, Kensington, soon after five in the morn- ing, and arrived at the chapel of the Cemetery at seven; finding the Prince Consort and others in punctual attendance. The coffin, bearing the Prin- cess's coronet, was placed in the chapel; and the Dutchess of Norfolk, as chief mourner, Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince George, took positions near it while the service was performed, by the Bishop of Norwich. The service being finished, and the mourners having departed, the coffin was placed, with the coronet on its lid, in vault 45 of catacomb A; which was immediately closed with masonry, in the presence of the Vice-Chamberlain of-the Queen's Household.
Before the arrival of the procession, the Duke of Cambridge visited the tomb of his brother the Duke of Sussex; and there, as well as afterwards during the-service, gave way to the fulness of his heart.
It is ainderstood that a mausoleum will be -erected in the Cemetery grounds, ,and the remains of the Princess be transferred thither.
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