Where do britain’s royalty get buried?
Today the royal family burial site is Windsor Castle.
St Georges Chapel in Windsor Castle
Ten monarchs are buried in the St Georges Chapel in Windsor Castle, including Edward IV, Henry VIII with his favourite wife Jane Seymour, Charles I, George V and Queen Mary. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother is also buried there, alongside her “beloved Bertie”, King George VI, and her younger daughter Princess Margaret.
Frogmore House, in the Home Park behind Windsor Castle.
Next to Frogmore House is the Royal Mausoleum, built by Queen Victoria, and in which she and her husband Prince Albert are buried.
Althorp
Princess Diana is buried on an island in a lake at her family home at Althorp, Great Brington, Northamptonshire.
Westminster Abbey
Royal burials at Westminster Abbey are mostly medieval royals, with some Hanoverian kings and family members.
(Many famous authors and influential English subject shuch as Chaucer, Tennyson and Dickens are also buried in Westminster Abbey, and there are memorials to many other figures such as Shakespeare, Keats, and Elliot. )
Timeline if kings and Queens of England and Great Britain
The British Royal family
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Monday, October 29, 2007
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