Photos show the Queen's coffin being lowered into the Royal Vault at St George's Chapel

Going down...

Damn, I didn't think it would be smack dab in the middle of the floor of the church.

The seating for the family service was quite odd.

Edward was up front, and Charles and Camilla were in the second row.

Was Fergie there

Charles is sitting in his Mummy's old seat.

I heard there was a loud farting sound when she hit bottom.

[quote] Also in attendance were almost 200 people who were recognized in The Queen's birthday honors list earlier this year, the palace statement added.

This is a bit odd when the total attendance was 800. Perhaps the Queen used her birthday honors list this year as a final reward for people important to her, so it made sense to invite them all?

The Queen DIED? Why hasn't anyone posted about it?

[quote] Was Fergie there

She was watching the live stream from a pub in Hounslow.

Did Meghan throw herself on the casket and say, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"

That would have been fun.

Nevermind. Here she is bringing up the rear.

I thought white smoke was going to come out when it went down, a la the Wicked Witch trapdoor thing in the Wizard of Oz.

Am I seeing things, or was she lowered into the floor?

I thought that the family burial location was in a tomb or mausoleum?

R13, I’m not sure either. I’m confused, she’s supposedly in the royal vault, which I guess is under the floor? Or in the George VI chapel? And their moving Prince Philip from…the royal vault to be with her? But isn’t he already in the royal vault? Is the royal vault like purgatory?

She was lowered into the royal vault, but later that day, the family was at a private service where she and Philip were both relocated to the King George VI Memorial Chapel. That's the extension she had built onto St. George Chapel in the 1960s, because there was no space in the royal vault or in the main part of the chapel, and her father the King had basically just been stored in the royal vault until a suitable new location could be found.

Are there underground tunnels where the dead walk freely?

[Quote]The newly-appointed King Charles II...

Well, that's embarrassing.

The whole article is riddled with errors, r17. It's embarrassing.

I just can’t keep up with the dead Queen, she’s always moving.

As Westminster and Windsor are 25 miles apart, she was lowered under at Westminster and vacuum tubed to Windsor Castle

Like at a drive thru bank window?

Yes very similar and twice as fast, apparently

You could see it being lowered if you were watching the service.

Just as you could see the casket of Prince Philip being lowered during his funeral service, if you were watching.

More without all the cutting and pasting of entire article.

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Many mistakenly believe persons are buried under grave markers in churches, abbeys or whatever, but normally that is not the case. Those markers are just that; actual caskets or coffins are interred in vaults below.

This was fairly common for churches and other houses of religion all over Europe for many years.

Is she still dead? Asking for a friend.

Breaking with tradition the Princess Margaret chose cremation in part because she wished to be interred next to her father, but there wasn't room for another casket/coffin. By this one assumes people meant that plans were already made for a space to accommodate Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.

Is she still in the floor?

R15 et al

Royal vault at St George's Chapel was originally supposed to be a temporary place of rest until monarchs or members of BRF were interred elsewhere, over time however it was used as final resting place.

Recently for George VI, his consort, and daughter the royal vault as served as a receiving vault of a sort. When the memorial chapel was completed HM George VI was moved there, later Queen Elizabeth - The Queen Mother, and ashes of the Princess Margaret were interred. Now Prince Phillip was taken from said "receiving vault" if you will and was interred with HM Queen Elizabeth II in Memorial chapel.

Given Elizabeth II's age when Prince Phillip died it was likely assumed (quietly and not spoken of course) that HM wouldn't be far behind. So they stashed (if that is proper word) PP in royal vault for time being. As it turns out those odds makers were correct.

Thus entire family of George VI; father, wife, two daughters and husband of one are all together for eternity. Charles III and his consort much less children and their wives will all have to find other final resting places. My guess is those plans are made already least far as HM and Queen Camilla are concerned.

It's bizarre to me that the royal family has "run out of space" to bury their dead.

There aren't that many of them, and they have so much land.

Why can't they just build new vaults or mausoleums on the church property?

It's so easy to build an addition to the church or to existing burial places.

Has no one thought of this before?

Oh dear, does anyone else smell sulphur?

[quote] Oh dear, does anyone else smell sulphur?

Why yes, Glinda.

They just dug up Prince Philip.

Will she have WiFi in there?

[quote] Will she have WiFi in there?

We charge extra for service to the Underworld.

FUCK YOU OP

FUCK EVERY ROYAL WORSHIPPING PIECE OF WHITE TRASH

FUCK ALL THESE THREADS

FUCK THAT CUNT QUEEN

I HOPE SHE ROTS IN HELL WITH YOU OP

Far as the Hanoverians (Saxe Coburg-Gotha, Windsor, Windsor-Mountbatten, etc...) they are scattered about England. Frogmore, Westminster Abbey, St. George's Chapel at Windsor...

Westminster Abbey is tight on space IIRC, but burials aren't restricted to members of BRF there either.

There's nothing stopping King Charles III from building another chapel or something at St. Georges like one for George VI and his family (including the late Queen Elizabeth).

Things are bad all over London and much of UK for that matter; places to bury the dead are becoming scarce. The rise in popularity of cremations has taken some of the pressure off, but demand still is strong for interment.

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I bet Charles will choose a place outdoors among flowers for just Camilla and him, and then William and Kate will do their own thing (and maybe their kids will eventually be part of that group).

It’s gone the other way, too. The crypt beneath St. Martin in the Fields has been repurposed as a café/cafeteria. I lunched there a couple of times when I was last in London. The prices are reasonable, the food is good, and you dine with some long passed Londoneers below your feet. I’ll be returning next month, maybe I’ll stop by again.

That's weird and creepy R41.

Why would you put a restaurant/cafe in a crypt?

If they run out of space beneath St. George's chapel, I could see Charles wanting to be buried at his Highgrove estate in one of his beloved gardens.

Highgrove belongs to Duchy of Cornwall, it is not personal property of the KING.

Sooner or later HM and the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall will have to hash something out as Highgrove does belong the new D of C.

Like Queen Alexandra to Sandringham, the KING could refuse to move out of Highgrove and turn it over to the Prince of Wales, but don't think things will come to that.

During his long tenure as Prince of Wales, Prince Charles has done much for and to Highgrove, it probably is one of if not the major place he feels at his ease and calls "home". HM certainly has made Highgrove a showplace on many levels including sustainable organic gardening. Indeed Prince Charles was way ahead on that front with Highgrove. His sons naturally partially grew up at the estate and thus Duke of Cornwall knows how much the place means to his father.