At 9:30 am George VI's coffin was carried from Westminster Hall by eight soldiers of the Grenadier Guards and placed on a gun carriage. [8] The coffin was draped in the royal standard atop which were placed a crown, orb and sceptre as well as his wife's wreath of orchids and lilies of the valley. [ 11 ]

Sep 15, 2022 · George VI's coffin traveled from Sandringham to London on February 11, 1952 (per History Today), where it lay in state for three days at Westminster Hall. The coffin sat on a catafalque surrounded by guards, with the royal standard as a drape, according to the Royal Collection Trust .

The King George VI Memorial Chapel is part of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. The chapel was commissioned by Elizabeth II in 1962 as a burial place for her father, George VI, and was completed in 1969.

Sep 18, 2022 · The coffin of George VI, draped with the royal standard, and topped with the crown, sceptre and orb, was carried by soldiers at his funeral.

Feb 2, 2002 · On February 11th the late King’ s coffin was moved from the church at Sandringham to Westminster Hall in London to lie in state while more than 300,000 people filed past. Foreign royalties and heads of state gathered in London for the funeral.

He ascended the throne on 11 December 1936, after the abdication of his brother Edward VIII. Generally considered a man of weak character, he showed, during World War II, to have energy and great charisma. He had valid help from his wife Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and Sir Winston Churchill, appointed Prime...

Photograph of the view inside Westminster Hall, where King George VI lay in state before his funeral at St Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle on 15 February. The coffin is draped with the Royal Standard and is supported upon a catafalque guarded …

Feb 15, 2022 · After the King's death, the coffin of King George VI was held at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, the Royal Family's local church while in residence at their Norfolk estate....

King George VI's coffin is led in an enormous funeral procession to St. George's Chapel accompanied by the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Royal and Princess Margaret along...

Sep 14, 2022 · What happened immediately after the King's death? The King's coffin initially rested at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Norfolk beginning Feb. 6, 1952, before lying in state at Westminster Hall in...