Queen Elizabeth II’s final resting place revealed in new Windsor Castle photograph

An engraved ledger stone that includes the identify of the late monarch was put in within the King George VI Memorial Chapel, an annex to the principle chapel, on Monday night after a personal service attended by her household.

The 4 royals had been members of the Order of the Garter, the nation’s most senior order of chivalry that dates again to medieval occasions and the reign of King Edward III. The group’s members are personally chosen by the sovereign in recognition of a person’s service to the nation and consists of a number of members of the royal household, former prime ministers and different senior figures. The order’s non secular house is St. George’s Chapel.

The Queen was laid to relaxation, after an elaborate state funeral at London’s Westminster Abbey attended by leaders from internationally. Greater than 26 million people in the UK tuned in to observe the funeral service on Monday, the primary to be televised for a British monarch.

When the Queen’s husband of 73 years Prince Philip died in April 2021, his coffin was initially positioned within the Royal Vault, set beneath St. George’s, the place it remained till it might be relocated to the memorial chapel upon the Queen’s demise. The ashes of the Queen’s sister Princess Margaret, who died in 2002, are additionally interred within the chapel.

Royal residences, together with Windsor Fort, have been closed for the reason that monarch’s demise on September 8. However most people will be capable to go to the Queen’s resting place when the fortress reopens on September 29.

Some areas inside royal residences reopened to vacationers on Thursday, together with the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace, the Palace of Holyroodhouse and the Queen’s Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, based on the Royal Assortment Belief. Nonetheless, Buckingham Palace’s summer season opening of the State Rooms and Royal Mews is not going to return this yr.

Moreover, particular shows marking the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Fort and the Palace of Holyroodhouse is not going to reopen to the general public, the belief added.

The {photograph} of the ledger stone comes a day after Buckingham Palace launched a brand new portrait of King Charles III with the sovereign’s signature purple bins.

The picture was taken by Britain’s PA Photos and exhibits Charles at work final week.

“The picture was taken within the Eighteenth Century Room at Buckingham Palace final week and exhibits His Majesty The King finishing up official authorities duties from The King’s Crimson Field,” the palace mentioned in a press release.

The purple bins include essential papers from authorities ministers within the UK and from representatives throughout the Commonwealth and past.

“The paperwork are despatched from the Non-public Secretary’s Workplace to The King, wherever he could also be in residence, in a locked purple despatch field,” it added.

Within the background behind the brand new monarch is a black and white {photograph} of the late monarch and Duke of Edinburgh, which was a Christmas present to the couple from King George VI in 1951.

The royal household are observing an extra week of mourning after the state funeral on the King’s request. Charles III has now reportedly returned to Scotland with the Queen Consort to grieve privately.