Duke to be moved when Queen dies

Following his funeral, the Duke of Edinburgh will be privately interred in the Royal Vault of St George's Chapel – but this will not be his final resting-place.

When the Queen dies, Philip will be transferred to the gothic church's King George VI memorial chapel to lie alongside his devoted wife of 73 years.

The tiny chapel houses the remains of the Queen's father, George VI, her mother the Queen Mother and sister Princess Margaret.

The central feature of the pale stone annexe, which was added on to the north side of St George's behind the North Quire Aisle in 1969, is a black stone slab set into the floor.

It is inscribed with "George VI" and "Elizabeth" in gold lettering and accompanied by their years of birth and death.

On Saturday, the Queen and close members of her family will gather privately after the funeral as the duke's coffin is interred in the Royal Vault – a burial place set beneath St George's Chapel – for the time being. It will be placed on a marble slab in the Quire and lowered into the Vault by electric motor.

The Royal Vault at Windsor was created between 1804 and 1810 for George III, who died in 1820 and is one of three kings buried there. Also interred in the vault are George IV and William IV.

Others buried there include George III'S wife Queen Charlotte and their daughter Princess Amelia, George IV'S daughter Princess Charlotte and queen victoria' s father the Duke of Kent. Princess Margaret, who died in 2002, was cremated and her ashes were initially placed in the Royal Vault before being moved to the George VI memorial chapel with her parents' coffins when the Queen Mother died weeks later. She wanted to be cremated because she found the alternative royal burial ground at Frogmore too "gloomy".