The King’s Grief was such, that it had no Interval, but in his application to pay those Honours to the Queen, that were due to her Rank. He was willing to signalize it by the magnificence of a Funeral Pomp, and for this purpose he himself issued the necessary Orders. The Elector of _Hanover_ (afterwards King of _England_) omitted nothing on his part to shew his Sorrow for the loss of so dear a Sister. Her Body was laid for several days upon a sumptuous Bed of State; her Ladies and the Officers of her Houshold who had waited on her to _Hanover_ encompass’d it, and the Elector’s Guards and Officers stay’d with the Queen’s Corpse, and pay’d the same Attendance as if she had been living. When every thing was ready to carry the Corpse to _Berlin_, the Elector caus’d it to be convey’d by all his Guards even to the Frontiers of the Duchy of _Zell_, where it was receiv’d by M. _de Bulau_ the Grand Marshal of the Court, who conducted it to the Territories of _Brandenburg_; and there it was receiv’d by the Count _de Witgenstein_, who accompany’d it as far as _Berlin_, where I remember it arriv’d about ten o’clock at Night in a terrible Shower of Rain. The King accompany’d by the Prince Royal and the Margraves in long Mourning-Cloaks and by the Ladies of the Court in deep Mourning-Veils, receiv’d the Queen’s Corpse at its being taken out of the Funeral-Chariot, and accompany’d it into the Old Chapel where a magnificent Cataphalque was erected for depositing it. It represented a Temple of an Oval Form, whose Roof was supported by Pillars of the _Corinthian_ Order, between each of which were plac’d Statues that represented the Queen’s Vertues. In the middle of the Cataphalque just in the Upright there was a Glory, in which there was the Queen’s Cypher form’d by Stars. All the Statues, that were silver’d, added to the Lustres, Branches and Chandeliers, made a noble Contrast with the Black that cover’d the Walls and the Roof. There the Queen’s Corpse was repos’d till every thing was ready for her Interment. I will not here enter into the detail of that Ceremony, which was one of the most magnificent. What I observ’d extraordinary in it was, that ’twas the King’s pleasure that the Parliament of _Orange_, of which the greatest part were Refugees at Court, should appear there in their Scarlet Robes.