Do the royals get embalmed?

Embalming is a process which has long been used by the royals; it involves preservative fluids being injected into bodies to delay decomposition. Queen Elizabeth I was embalmed after her passing in 1603 and her coffin was placed in Whitehall Palace for three weeks before her burial.



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The late monarch's cause of death has been clarified by Gyles Brandreth in his book Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait. According to Prince Philip's friend, The Queen fought a severe cancer in the years before she passed away. In her later years, he said, she battled a specific type of bone marrow cancer.

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While it's not refrigerated, it is underground ? the Royal Vault is a burial chamber underneath St. George's Chapel in Windsor, carved out between 1804 and 1810.

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