Following the service, the Queen's coffin will now make its way to Windsor, where she will be buried with her beloved late husband, the Duke of Edinburgh. The coffin will be taken to Wellington Arch, Hyde Park Corner, as members of the public watch on, before it is taken to Windsor Castle.
I don't know what it would have been, very embarrassing, but we didn't.” Elizabeth's coffin was entombed Monday evening in a vault in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, part of the St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. She rests near her parents, sister and Prince Philip, her husband, who died last year.
The Queen's coffin will be interred with the Grenadier Guards' Queen's Company Camp Colour - a smaller version of the Royal Standard of the Regiment - which the King placed on her coffin at the end of the committal service.
After the funeral of the Queen on 19 September, she was later interred beneath the King George VI Memorial Chapel in a private service attended only by her closest family at 19:30, alongside her father King George VI, her mother Queen Elizabeth, and the ashes of her sister Princess Margaret.
Yes. The Queen's coffin will be on public view 24 hours a day in the four-and-a-half days before her funeral.
En route from the hall to the abbey, the Queen's coffin was carried on a 123-year-old gun carriage as part of a procession led by the royal family, Palace guards and 138 Royal Navy sailors. They are known as the Sovereign's Guard and are in place to haul the carriage along with a white rope.
Royal Navy sailors have the honour of pulling the State Ceremonial Gun Carriage bearing the Queen's coffin for two miles through the streets of London – a duty they have performed since the funeral of Queen Victoria in 1901.
The Queen will be buried within the King George VI Memorial Chapel, where she joins King George VI and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, and her sister Princess Margaret. The coffin of the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 2021, is currently in a section of the chapel known as the Quire.
The Queen's body will be buried in a small annex of the chapel, in the same location her sister, Princess Margaret's ashes are kept. This is also the location of The Queen Mother, who the Queen will also be buried beside. Prince Philip, who died in 2021 at the age of 99, will be buried alongside the Queen as well.
While her coffin is draped in the Royal Standard – a flag representing the Sovereign and the UK, it will have the Imperial State Crown mounted on it. Additionally, The Queen's orb and her sceptre will also be spread on her coffin before she is laid to rest.
King Charles and other members of the Royal Family will walk behind the Queen's coffin before and after the funeral service at Westminster Abbey.
Queen Elizabeth II will be buried in an English oak coffin featuring brass handles that were designed more than 30 years ago, and lined with lead. It is estimated the coffin weighs between 250kg and 317kg.
Most pieces of the Crown Jewels are kept to be passed down to King Charles III, but it is likely that Her Majesty will be buried with jewellery from her own collection. The Queen had over 300 items in her private collection, but one jewellery expert believes that she will be buried with some of her more modest pieces.
Following royal tradition, which dates back as far as the 1600s, the queen's coffin was lined with lead, which ensures that her remains stay intact for up to a year. This is because the lead makes the coffin airtight, stopping moisture from getting in and therefore slowing down the decomposition of the body.
The Queen will be buried in the small chapel in the side of St George's where her mother and father are. She will be laid to rest with her husband Prince Philip whose coffin has been resting in the Royal Vault since he died.
The Queen's coffin now permanently resides inside the King George VI Memorial Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
She will be buried in the castle's King George VI Memorial Chapel, alongside her father, her mother, and her sister's ashes.
Queen Elizabeth II will be buried in the King George VI memorial chapel, in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. The chapel located next to the North Quire aisle in the building, was built between 1968 and 1969 and commemorates it's namesake - King George VI, the Queen's father.
But the plaque on the tomb (see Figure 1.1) also acknowledges the presence of Elizabeth's half-sister, Mary. It reads: Partners both in throne and grave, here rest we two sisters Elizabeth and Mary, in the hope of one resurrection.
The favouring of sailors over horses during state funeral processions was entrenched in tradition after Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901 when chilly weather spooked the horses that were due to pull the gun carriage.
The tradition of sailors pulling the coffin was brought in after the horses used to pull Queen Victoria's coffin in 1901 for her funeral were spooked and almost tipped her coffin.
A state hearse took the queen's coffin to Buckingham Palace, where mourners have continued to gather to pay their respects. The king met dignitaries in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he was due to attend a prayer service at St. Anne's Cathedral before he returns to London.
The Queen's coffin (which was made thirty years ago) is thought to weigh anywhere between 250kg and 317kg, due to it being made from oak with brass fittings and lead lining – which is used to slow decomposition. This means an additional two pallbearers are needed to carry it.
The coffin bearers at the Queen's funeral are from a unit of which the late monarch was Company Commander. Soldiers from the Queen's Company, 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, were chosen to lift the coffin during the service at Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle.
The crown sat atop a purple pillow, a seemingly precarious spot that was stabilised by a firm protruding section on which the monarch's headwear was mounted. Rods protruding discreetly from beneath the Royal Standard flag held the sceptre slightly above the lid of the lead-lined coffin until it was ready to be removed.