Queen Victoria

2022 - 9 - 19

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Queen Victoria was buried with husband's dressing gown and her ... (Daily Express)

Queen Victoria left a list of objects she wanted to be buried with, including the dressing gown of her husband, King Albert.

Presenter Huw Edwards agreed, adding: "The Queen, with serious health issues, decided nonetheless that she did want to spend a good deal of time at Balmoral during the summer. Ms Nicholl told the BBC: "I think Balmoral was the one place where she could actually leave her crown at the gates and be a different role, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother. She was then taken to mainland England on the royal yacht Alberta. [Queen Victoria](/express.co.uk/latest/queen-victoria), requested to be buried with a number of different objects before she died in 1901. Finally, he placed a bunch of flowers in her hands. She will be buried at the King George VI memorial chapel alongside her late husband Prince Philip.

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Queen Victoria's Funeral Was Almost a Majestic Mess (Vanity Fair)

With no photos for reference, and few people alive who remembered the last sovereign's death, royal servants were at a loss for how to commemorate the late ...

She wanted it done “with respect— but simply.” Curiously, for a woman obsessed with death and mourning—who had worn black for decades in honor of her beloved husband Prince Albert’s early death—Victoria requested a white funeral, with no public lying in state and no hearse to carry her coffin. However, when the undertaker’s assistant arrived, it was discovered that he had not brought the expected coffin, as he claimed he needed to take the deceased queen’s measurements. “I was told the scene on the hill down to Cowes [on the Isle of Wight] was disgraceful,” Ponsonby wrote, per Richards. “Reporters in carriages and on bicycles were seen racing for the post office in East Cowes, and men were shouting as they ran, ‘The queen is dead.’” “We spent the evening looking up what had been done when George IV and William IV had died.” This foresight, so typical of the queen’s pragmatic, no-nonsense personality, was a far cry from the confusion that greeted the death of England’s last great queen.

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Queen's Funeral: Coffin is being pulled by soldiers because of ... (LADbible)

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will be held at Westminster Abbey after the carriage is pulled there by forces members.

It is believed that the Abbey has been selected because of the amount of people it can accommodate, as well as the suitability for TV broadcasts to be made from there. Anyway, back in 1901 the naval guard of honour that was accompanying the monarch’s coffin stepped in to fill the void left by the horses, volunteering to drag the coffin on the carriage to Westminster Abbey so that the funeral could go ahead as planned. It turns out that there’s a reason for that, and it dates all the way back to the funeral of

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Near-disastrous reason why Queen's coffin is pulled with ropes and ... (Daily Star)

But the pageantry of the monarch's coffin being pulled by ropes rather than horses actually comes from an almost calamitous event during the funeral procession ...

The gun carriage was built at the Royal Gun Factory at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich to carry the standard light field gun of the Army at the time, the breech-loaded 12-Pounder. What was the carriage that the Queen’s coffin was carried on? Once this was agreed, the horses were unharnessed and improvised ropes were attached to the gun carriage and a team of sailors were brought in to ensure the coffin was carried safely for the rest of the route. [Kate Middleton wears pearl necklace worn by Diana at Queen's funeral](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/breaking-kate-middleton-spotted-wearing-28008562) [What clothes and jewels will Queen be buried with including Prince Phillip's wedding ring](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/what-clothes-jewels-queen-buried-28025560) [Queen's funeral order of service in full – poignant reminders of the monarch's life](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/what-order-service-queens-funeral-28025020) [Policeman carried away on a stretcher after collapsing during Queen's funeral](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/breaking-policeman-carried-away-stretcher-28025728) [Meghan Markle's touching tribute to Queen with funeral jewellery choice](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/breaking-meghan-markles-subtle-tribute-28007995) “The sailors from the Royal Navy that were part of the parade stepped forward, picked up the traces and pulled the gun carriage the rest of the way and that is now baked in as a formal aspect of what makes a state funeral — thanks to those horses.” At 10.44am, the gun carriage was pulled by a 98-strong team of sailors known as the Sovereign’s Guard, while 40 sailors marched behind the carriage to act as a brake. “The reason that tradition exists is as my forebears got close to St George’s Chapel with Queen Victoria’s coffin on the gun carriage, the horses that were pulling the gun carriage got spooked, possibly by the crowds, and broke their traces,” he said. Victoria’s coffin was to be carried on the 2.5 tonne gun carriage through the streets of Windsor in 1901. [Queen](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/latest/queen) Elizabeth II was famed for her love of horses, the tradition was kept for her funeral on Monday, September 19. The reason the Queen’s coffin was carried through Parliament Square on a 123-year-old gun carriage towed by 98 Royal Navy sailors is because of a near-mishap that occurred during Queen Victoria’s procession. But in the bitter cold of that February day, the horses which were going to pull it panicked and reared, threatening to topple the coffin from the carriage. The Queen’s coffin was carried the short distance from Westminster Hall to Westminster Abbey for her

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Why does this university want to bin Queen Victoria? (Spectator.co.uk)

Spare a thought for New Zealand's Victoria university. For years now, this Kiwi institution of higher learning has been pulling out all the stops to rid ...

In the United States, there’s Cornell university in upstate New York, which is one of the eight members of the venerable Ivy League, and Cornell college in Iowa, which most certainly is not. Let’s hear it for the University of Jacinda. Come to think of it, five of the colleges at Oxford — the Oxford, that is — also happen to have identical names to ones at Cambridge. It wants to be known as university of Wellington, after the capital city in which most of its 22,000 students live. The same goes for some of its new signage. The death of Queen Elizabeth — and the tidal wave of warm Antipodean feel it has brought about — can only have thrown yet another spanner in the works.

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