Members of the public will be able to visit the final resting place of Queen Elizabeth II in St George’s Chapel from Thursday 29 September.
For centuries, Westminster Abbey was the prime resting place for kings and queens (with Edward the Confessor becoming the first sovereign to be buried there in 1066) until the 15th century, after which British monarchs have also been buried at St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle. Queen Victoria is buried elsewhere; she now rests at the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore, alongside her husband, Prince Albert, who died almost 40 years before her. The Duke and Duchess of Windsor are also buried at Frogmore, although their bodies lie in the Royal Burial Ground.
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St George’s also holds a number of happy memories, with the Royal Family regularly using it as a location for weddings and christenings. King Charles III and the Queen Consort wed at the chapel in 2005, whilst the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank both married there in 2018.
Her Majesty’s final resting place is set alongside her parents, George VI (who died in 1952) and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, (who died in 2002), and the ashes of her sister, Princess Margaret (who also died in 2002), in a small chapel set apart from the main royal vault. The coffin of the late Duke of Edinburgh is set to be relocated from the vault to the chapel, to lie beside his wife.