Mourning facts for kids
- Not to be confused with morning
Mourning refers to process of grieving. This almost always happens at funerals whenever a loved one passes away.
Images for kids
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Girl in a mourning dress holding a framed photograph of her father, who presumably died during the American Civil War.
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Japanese funeral arrangement.
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Catherine de' Medici as widow, c. 1560s
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Mary, Queen of Scots, in deuil blanc c. 1559 following the deaths of her father-in-law, mother, and first husband Francis II of France.
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Mourning jewelry
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Queen Victoria with the five surviving children of her daughter, Princess Alice, dressed in mourning clothing for their mother and their sister Princess Marie in early 1879.
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The five daughters of Prince Albert wore black dresses and posed for a portrait with his statue following his death in 1861.
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Poor orphans depicted wearing a makeshift black armband to mourn for their mother (Work by F.M. Brown), 1865
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Thailand national flag flown at half mast at a high school in Bangkok during the state mourning of the King Bhumibol
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Maria Luisa, Queen of Spain lying in state, by Sebastián Muñoz, 1689, displays the full panoply of lying in state
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This 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld depicts the death of Bathsheba's first child with David, who lamented, "I shall go to him, but he will not return to me" (Samuel%2012:23;&version=KJV; 2 Samuel 12:23)
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A woman mourning the death of her husband, Prague, 1772
See also
In Spanish: Luto para niños