See the Engraved Slab that Marks Queen Elizabeth II’s Final Resting Place
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The queen was buried in the King George VI memorial chapel at Windsor Castle following her funeral more than a week ago.
Buckingham Palace has released a photo of the ledger stone that marks Queen Elizabeth II’s final resting place.
Made of black Belgian marble, the slab is engraved with the names of the queen’s parents (King George VI and Queen Elizabeth) as well as the queen’s own name and that of her husband Prince Philip.
The queen was buried in the King George VI memorial chapel at Windsor Castle following her funeral more than a week ago. Meanwhile Philip, who died in 2021, was disinterred from a separate location so that he could be laid to rest alongside his wife.
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The ashes of the queen’s sister Princess Margaret are also interred in the chapel, although her name does not appear alongside those of her parents and the queen.
The queen herself commissioned the chapel back in 1962 as a memorial to her father.
In the picture, various floral wreaths and tributes have been laid alongside the ledger stone.
One wreath of flowers and foliage in particular is the one which adorned the queen’s coffin on the day of her funeral, and which accompanied the coffin from Westminster Abbey to Windsor where she was finally interred.
Her son King Charles III helped select the flowers, which included roses, hydrangea and dahlias from the gardens of Buckingham Palace, Kensington Palace and Clarence House.
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The colors of pink, burgundy, white and gold were all chosen to reflect the Royal Standard, in which the queen’s coffin was draped.
Also present in the wreath with rosemary to symbolize remembrance and English oak to symbolize the strength of love.
It was Charles’ request that a sprig of myrtle cut from the same plant that provided myrtle for the queen’s wedding bouquet in 1947 was included in this final wreath.
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