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Following his funeral service at St George's Chapel, George's remains had been transferred to the royal vault beneath the chapel. George's death was unexpected, and no specific resting place had been designated for him.
- Death and state funeral of George VI - Wikipedia
The body of George VI was moved from the Royal Vault on 26...
- Death and state funeral of George VI - Wikipedia
The body of George VI was moved from the Royal Vault on 26 March 1969 and reinterred in the newly-built King George VI Memorial Chapel. His daughter, Princess Margaret, died on 9 February 2002 and, in accordance with her wishes, a private funeral was held at St George's Chapel.
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch), and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter .
George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.
Sep 18, 2022 · King George VI died at Sandringham on February 6, 1952, at the age of 56. Then-Princess Elizabeth had been in Kenya on royal tour, but quickly returned to the UK to join her family. Here,...
Sep 17, 2022 · The chapel — inside the walls of the castle — has been the burial place for almost every British monarch since King George III's death in 1820. Specifically, the Queen will be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, a small enclave inside St George's. The Queen commissioned it as a burial place for her own father, King George VI, in 1962.
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Sep 29, 2022 · Hundreds queued outside Windsor Castle to view the King George VI memorial chapel, inside St George's Chapel, where a ledger stone inscribed with the late monarch's name lies. The...
