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Danielle Kate Wroe

The Queen to be reunited with beloved family and Philip in Windsor Castle burial

With Queen Elizabeth II 's funeral set to take place on Monday, many will be wondering why the monarch is going to be buried in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, an annex of St George's Chapel at Windsor, rather than Westminster Abbey, as tradition used to see.

As the Queen lies in state in Westminster Hall over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of mourners have been paying their respects at the Queen's coffin - but once she is buried, they'll have to travel a little further if they want to visit as she will not be laid to rest in the City of London.

The Queen will be buried at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (Getty Images)

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Instead, she's being buried at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle after her state funeral in Westminster Abbey. This is due to the fact she will be buried alongside her mother and father, and the ashes of her late sister Margaret.

Prince Philip's coffin is set to be moved and put next to the Queen's - it has been in the nearby royal vault since his funeral in 2021.

The chapel, which is 18 feet high, 10 feet wide, and 14ft deep, was completed in 1969. It cost around £25,000 to build and was paid for by the Queen - it was the first addition to St George's chapel in over 500 years.

In the evening of the funeral day, a private burial service will be conducted by the Dean of Windsor, attended by Charles and members of the Royal Family.

As the Queen did with her father in 1952, Charles will drop a handful of earth onto his late mother's coffin.

King Charles III will drop earth on his mother's coffin on Monday (Getty Images)

Then, much like the coffins of other members of the Royal Family, the Queen will be taken down the shaft about 16ft before going down a corridor and her coffin will be set down in the vault behind iron gates.

St George's Chapel itself was ordered by King Edward IV, with construction beginning in 1475 and finishing in 1528 under the reign of King Henry VIII.

Earlier monarchs were traditionally laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, where they still remain in a royal vault under the Henry VII Chapel.

However, this quickly filled up and George III was forced to commission a new one under the Albert Memorial Chapel in Windsor in 1810.

The general public are permitted to visit St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, but visitors are urged to remember it is many people's local community church. There are three services a day at the chapel, and worshippers can go to any of them.

You can now buy the historic Daily Mirror commemorating the death of the Queen here: mirror.co.uk/commemorative

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