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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)
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
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs.
The grave of Richard III from 1485. In 1495, ten years after the burial, Henry VII paid for a marble and alabaster monument to mark Richard's grave. [9] Its cost is recorded in surviving legal papers relating to a dispute over payment showing that two men received payments of £50 and £10.1s, respectively, to make and transport the tomb from Nottingham to Leicester. [10]
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.
Royal Mausoleum in St. Vitus Cathedral at Prague Castle, Czech republic: burial place of emperors Ferdinand I and Maximilian II and empress Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore in Windsor, England: burial place of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; Royal Mausoleum (Norway), in Oslo; Shah Alam Royal Mausoleum, Selangor, Malaysia