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The King George VI Memorial Chapel is part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. The chapel was commissioned by Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for her father, George VI, and was completed in 1969.
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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.
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.
King Edward IV (d. 1483) Queen Elizabeth Woodville (d. 1492) Princess Louise, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar, niece of Queen Adelaide (d.1832) King George VI Memorial Chapel: King George VI (d.1952, buried in chapel 1969) Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (d.2002) Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d.2002) (ashes)
George VI (born Albert Frederick Arthur George Windsor; [1] 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom from 11 December 1936 until his death on 6 February 1952. He became king when his older brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson.
May 13, 2021 · Further up is The King George VI Memorial Chapel where Queen Elizabeth II is buried next to her husband, The Duke of Edinburgh, and alongside her father King George VI, her mother...
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Apr 14, 2021 · Three kings — George III, George IV, and William IV — were all interred in the Royal Vault, per the College of St. George. George VI died in 1952 and was first interred in the Royal Vault before being moved to the memorial chapel when it was built 17 years later, in 1969.
