Late Queen Alexandra (1925)

Item title reads - Late Queen Alexandra. Sorrowing tenantry pay last sad tribute to their beloved Queen and Mistress. Sandringham, Norfolk. Intertitle - ’peace, perfect peace, broods over her loved home.’ L/S of Sandringham with a policeman stood at the gate. Various shots of the house, M/S of the flag flying at half mast. M/S of the church, people walk about in front. M/S of the Union Jack flying at half mast on the church. Intertitle - ’Servants have kept vigil for every two hours by the coffin.’ M/S of a man stood over Queen Alexandra’s coffin which is covered in flowers. C/U of the flowers as the camera pans across and back again. L/S exterior of the church, the camera pans down to people walking down the steps under an archway. Intertitle - ’The old ladies of Castle Rising mourn her.’ M/S as ladies in pointed black hats and capes emerge from an archway and walk along. M/S of the ladies stood in a line. Intertitle - ’The 81 carnations the schoolchildren saved for and had hoped to give h