Interment in Royal Vault

THE DUKE is to be privately interred in the Royal Vault of St George’s Chapel following his funeral, 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 is a black stone slab set into the floor, inscribed with “George VI” and “Elizabeth” in gold lettering and accompanied by their years of birth and death.