Where will Prince Philip be buried?

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London. The remains of the Edinburgh Duke will be laid in the royal pantheon under St George’s Chapel, adjacent to Windsor Castle, where the funeral was held this Saturday after his death on the 9th at 99 years.

Although the coffin of Prince Philip, consort of Queen Elizabeth II for 73 years, will initially lie in this crypt, it is arranged that when the British monarch dies, he will be moved to the chapel commemorating King George VI of the Gothic church so that the marriage is buried in the same place.

This tiny family memorial temple, located in Windsor, also houses the remains of the queen’s father, George VI, the queen mother and Elizabeth II’s younger sister, Princess Margaret.

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In an annex added to the north wing of the Church in 1969 there is a black slab embedded in the ground with the inscription: “George VI” and “Isabel”, in golden letters, accompanied by the dates of the years of their births and dead.

Today, after the end of the service, the coffin of the duke would be lowered with electrical machinery to the royal crypt under the chapel of St. George, where it will be placed on a scaffold on a marble slab.

This royal pantheon in Windsor was created between 1804 and 1810 for George III, who died in 1820, and who to this day is one of the three monarchs buried here, along with George IV and William IV.

Other members of the royalty buried in this place are the wife of Jorge III, queen Carlota and her daughter princess Amelia, as well as the daughter of Jorge IV, princess Carlota and the father of queen Victoria, the Duke of Kent.

Princess Margaret, younger sister of Elizabeth II, who died in 2002, was cremated and her ashes were initially placed in the same Pantheon before being moved to the memorial chapel of George VI along with the coffins of the his parents, when the queen mother died weeks later.

Margarita wanted to be cremated because, as a close friend, Lady Glenconner, once explained, the alternative of being buried (in Frogmore) seemed too “dark” to her.

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