Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin is making a final journey to herfinal resting place, a burial site at St. George’s Chapel within the walls of Windsor Castle, in a custom vehicle the late monarch helped design for the occasion.
The Royal Household and Jaguar Land Rover sought input from the Queen before her death to come up with the design of the State Hearse. It was then used totransport the monarchto Buckingham Palace last Tuesday after her coffin was flown into RAF Northolt from Scotland, where she “peacefully” died at her beloved residence Balmoral Castle on Sept. 8.
On Monday, the hearse again carried her coffin from Wellington Arch in London to Windsor. Once it reaches the estate grounds, the hearse will slow to join a procession with members of the royal family and travel via the Long Walk to St. George’s Chapel for the committal service.
The vehicle was designed to allow members of the public to have a clear view of the Queen’s oak coffin.
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In the days immediately after her death, the Queen’s coffin traveled in the State Hearse from the Throne Room at the Palace of Holyroodhouse to St. Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. The Queen’s children,King Charles III,Princess Anne,Prince AndrewandPrince Edward, walked behind the hearse on the mile-long journey as respectful crowds looked on.
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Queen Elizabeth’s funeral procession.BBC
Queen Elizabeth’s funeral.Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty
The Queen will be placed next to herhusbandof 73 years,Prince Philip, whodied at age 99in April 2021.
Prince Philip’s custom Land Rover hearse.Kirsty O’Connor/WPA Pool/Getty Images
Though Philip’s funeral arrangements were scaled down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, several of his personal wishes were implemented — including his desire for his coffin to be carried inanother special vehicle, a Land Rover that was “designed and custom-made to the duke’s specification,” Buckingham Palace said at the time.
Based on a Land Rover Defender TD 130, the vehicle was modified with an open-top rear section. It was also painted dark bronze-green (per the duke’s instructions), which is the same color the British military uses for many of its Land Rovers.
source: people.com
