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Huge fire damages Queen Elizabeth's burial castle

At the end of a state funeral watched by millions around the world, Queen Elizabeth arrived at Windsor Castle, to be buried in a chapel in a private ceremony.
It was William the Conqueror who built Windsor Castle in 1066 before re-building and designing it over the centuries, but it is the oldest and largest inhabited castle in the world.

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And the castle just outside London was the resort Queen's main weekendIt was also her favorite home in the last years of her reign.
A massive fire damaged it in 1992, which the Queen described as a "terrible year", due to a series of scandals that rocked the royal family.
Windsor Castle is also the final resting place for more than a dozen English and British kings and queens. Most of them were buried in St George's Chapel, among them Henry VIII, who died in 12, and Charles I.
The Queen will be buried at the King George VI Memorial Chapel, which is located near the main complex of St George's Chapel. In 1962, she ordered the construction of the memorial church and named it after her father.
There King George and his wife, the Queen Mother, are buried, along with their youngest daughter, Margaret.

Windsor Castle
Windsor Castle

Most of the music to be used during the ceremonies was composed or arranged by William Henry Harris, the principal organist in the church between 1933 and 1961. It is believed that he taught the Queen to play the piano as a child.
In 1948, when she was still a princess, the Queen was awarded the Order of the Rabat - Britain's highest equestrian honour, at St George's Chapel, she and her husband Prince Philip.
St. George's Chapel hosted the funerals of Philip, the Queen's father and grandfather, George V, and great-grandfather Edward VII.
Her grandson, Prince Harry, was baptized there and married there in 2018. It was where Prince William, the new heir to the throne, confirmed his Christian beliefs to be accepted into the Catholic Church.
The coffin of Prince Philip, who died on April 2021, XNUMX, is placed in the royal vault, so that he can be buried alongside the Queen.

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