Astrid (Queen of the Belgians) (1906-1935)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1935 Sep 4 p. 1

Birth date: 1906

text of obituary:

Belgium Queen Killed In Automobile Accident.

Brussels, Aug. 30. — Mourners from high and low stations, united by common grief for their dead Queen Astrid, filed sadly past a bed covered with white silk today for a final glimpse at her pale, bandaged face.

Upon its arrival by special train from Switzerland, where she was killed yesterday in an automobile wreck, the body of the 29-year-old queen and mother was placed in state in the royal palace.

It lay in the black-draped "Thinkers Hall." There King Leopold, who escaped the fate which overtook his wife when the car he was driving struck a tree, spent the morning before the public was admitted.

The funeral will be at 10:15 a. m. Tuesday. The ceremony will be the same as that with which Belgium honored its late King Albert, Astrid's father-in-law, who was killed 18 months ago while mountain-climbing. There will be a processional from Saint Gudula cathedral to the royal crypt at Laeken, seven miles from Brussels.