. HOW THE KAISER LOOKED
Sm,—Your correspondent is correct in saying that the Kaiser rode abreast with King Edward VII and the Duke of Connaught behind the coffin at Queen Victoria's funeral in London. The context suggests that Mr. Nicolson referred to the funeral in London and not to the ceremony at Windsor, which comparatively few people witnessed. As a young officer with a party of Royal Field Artillery from Aldershot,. I was lining a
section of the north side of the Mall, near Buckingham Palace. Since the Kaiser rode on the left, I was within a few. feet of him. I remember being deeply impressed .by. his military bearing on horseback—he was magnificently mounted—and by the austere expression of his face, but not by its pallidness. I thought he looked very fit.—Yours faithfully,
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