Her funeral at London’s Westminster Abbey on Monday saw around 2,000 people, including world leaders and foreign royalty, gather to pay their last respects to Britain’s longest-serving monarch. Elizabeth II’s coffin was then taken to St George’s Chapel for another service attended by 800 people, including members of the Royal Family, palace staff and people on the latest birthday honors list. Her burial – next to her beloved Prince Philip at 7.30pm. – was a “completely private” and “deeply personal family occasion”. Read: The love story of the Queen and her prince as they are buried together at Windsor King George VI’s tiny chapel houses the remains of Queen George VI’s father, her mother the Queen Mother and her sister Princess Margaret. When Philip died 17 months ago, aged 99, his coffin was buried in St George’s Vault – ready to be moved to the memorial when his wife died. The Duke of Edinburgh was widely regarded as the Queen’s ‘rock’, with whom he enjoyed a happy marriage of nearly 74 years. Paying tribute to her late husband in her final Christmas address to the nation, the monarch said: “His sense of service, intellectual curiosity and ability to wring fun out of any situation were all unstoppable.” He added: “That naughty love glow was as bright at the end as when I first laid eyes on him.”
