Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, has been laid to rest alongside her late husband Prince Philip in a private burial at St George’s Chapel after the pomp and pageantry of a majestic state funeral at Westminster Abbey.
The queenās flag-draped coffin was lowered into the royal vault underneath the chapel, joining her father George VI and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, on Monday evening. It was the final time her coffin was seen in public after 11 days of national mourning.
”The Queen was buried together with the Duke of Edinburgh, at The King George VI Memorial Chapel,” Buckingham Palace stated on the official Royal Family website.
Earlier, the roughly 40-km route by road from Westminster Abbey in London, the site of a grand state funeral attended by thousands in the day, to Windsor included the coffin processing by state gun carriage and then in the state hearse, a customised Jaguar, to the steps of the chapel. The queen died aged 96 at her Balmoral estate in Scotland on September 8.
President Droupadi Murmu on Monday joined around 500 world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, and royals from across the world at Westminster Abbey for a sombre ceremony to bid farewell to Queen Elizabeth II – the UK’s longest-serving monarch.