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Prince Philip funeral: Britain is left heartbroken by photograph of the Queen sitting alone
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Prince Philip s coffin is lowered into 200-year-old vault below St George s Chapel
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Prince Philip has joined 24 other members of the Royal Family lying in the vault under St George s Chapel. His body will remain there until transferred by lift upstairs to a side chapel when the Queen dies.
Then the devoted couple can be laid together – in the same final resting place as her father, George VI, her mother and with the ashes of the Queen s sister, Princess Margaret.
A vault with enough room for 44 royals
The Royal Vault is 70ft long and 28ft wide – with space for 32 bodies along two sides and 12 in the middle.
The vault was built in 1810 and George III was the first king to be interred there, in 1820.
Elizabeth and Philip: was theirs the last truly royal marriage?
The Queen married a man with more royal blood than her own – a circumstance unlikely to be repeated in royal history
11 April 2021 • 6:00am
The Queen and Prince Philip were both born of royal blood – but none of their children or grandchildren married royals
Credit: Donald McKague
The announcement from Buckingham Palace, on the evening of 9 July 1947, made clear that the dashing, blond-haired navalman, newly engaged to the heiress presumptive, Princess Elizabeth, was no ordinary lieutenant of the Royal Navy. Philip Mountbatten, the Court Circular informed an enthusiastic British public, was the ‘son of the late Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Andrew (Princess Alice of Battenberg)’. At a stroke, the future Elizabeth II had achieved the impossible. Her husband-to-be, naturalised as a British subject in February, was not only an officer with a distinguished record of wartime service in Britain’s navy