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and splendor, but subdued, as was befitting; and while 

 the foreign representatives stood beside her coffin, the 

 Emperor spoke to me, very simply and kindly, of his 

 sorrow and of mine. Then, to the sound of funeral music 

 and muffled church bells, he, with the King of Great Britain 

 and members of their immediate family just behind the 

 funeral car, the ambassadors accompanying them, and a 

 long procession following, walked slowly along the broad 

 avenue through that beautiful forest, until, in the Church 

 of Peace, she was laid by the side of her husband, Em 

 peror Frederick the Noble. 



