4 THE QUEEN’S LAST RESTING PLACE: KING GEORGE VI MEMORIAL CHAPEL

At 7.30pm a private burial service is conducted by the Dean of Windsor, attended by the King and members of the Royal Family. The Queen’s and Prince Philip’s coffins are brought up from the Royal Vault to join King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, as well as the ashes of Princess Margaret in the King George VI Memorial Chapel. The chapel was built in 1969, it is the only structural addition to St George’s Chapel since the 1500s.

The stone covering the tomb is moved away The Queen’s and Philip’s coffins are lowered into the tomb and placed on a frame Princess Margaret’s ashes