Funeral Planning
Queen Victoria had planned her funeral before her passing. She actually passed away on the Isle of Wight but was buried at Frogmore.
In 1897, the Queen left strict instructions relating to the service and ceremony. Many of these instructions set the precedent for many state funerals to this day.
Despite having spent her life after Alberts death dressed in black, she dictated that her funeral be a white funeral.
As she was a soldiers daughter and head of the Army, she wanted the procession to be a full military service. Her coffin was carried by a gun carriage and in the funeral procession consisted of Navy and Army officers but there was no lying in state.
When she passed away in 1901 she was placed in her coffin wearing a white gown and in her wedding veil and was the first Monarch to be buried outside of Westminster Abbey.
She requested family mementoes be placed with her such as Alberts dressing gown and a plaster cast of his hand.
You don’t need to be a Royal to plan your own funeral.
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