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These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only the monarchs of Scotland, England, native princes of Wales to 1283, or monarchs of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom), as well as members of their royal families.
This list contains all European emperors, kings and regent princes and their consorts as well as well-known crown princes since the Middle Ages, whereas the lists are starting with either the beginning of the monarchy or with a change of the dynasty (e.g. England with the Norman king William the Conqueror, Spain with the unification of Castile and Aragon, Sweden with the Vasa dynasty, etc.).
See also: Burial sites of European monarchs and consorts. Subcategories. ... Burial sites of English royal houses (9 C, 1 P) Burial sites of French royal families (8 C)
Honouring individuals buried in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition. Over 3,300 people are buried or commemorated in the abbey. [1] For much of the abbey's history, most of the people buried there besides monarchs were people with a connection to the church – either ordinary locals or the monks of the abbey itself, who were generally buried without surviving markers. [2]
“The discovered burial insignia of the monarchs of Lithuania and Poland are priceless historical treasures, symbols of the long tradition of Lithuanian statehood, signs of Vilnius as the capital ...
This category contains a comprehensive list of all monarchs of the British Isles since the Norman Conquest to be buried abroad. See also: British monarchs; Burial places of monarchs in the British Isles
Interred in the Royal Burial Ground in April 1988. Her coffin is in the same grave as that of her husband. 1994 Lady May Abel Smith (1906–1994), daughter of Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, and wife of Sir Henry Abel Smith. Interred in the Royal Burial Ground on 9 June 1994; her husband's ashes were buried there at the same time.
Even though her funeral was a public affair, and televised, little is known about what Queen Elizabeth II will take to her grave – and one expert believes that this may remain the case.