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Evening Standard
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John Dunne

Queen’s coffin to be towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors during funeral - due to cold spell 121 years ago

The Queen’s coffin will be carried during Monday’s funeral procession to Westminster Abbey on a 123-year-old gun carriage towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors in a tradition dating back to the funeral of Queen Victoria.

On the day of Victoria’s funeral in 1901, her coffin was to be carried on the gun carriage through the streets of Windsor.

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