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What was Queen Elizabeth buried in?

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



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And while ancient wealthy Egyptians were often buried with caches of jewels, sculptures and other belongings, Taddeo said, the queen was reported to have been buried with just her wedding band, made of Welsh gold, and a pair of pearl earrings.

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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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A new biography of Queen Elizabeth II has revealed the monarch was suffering from bone marrow cancer before her death.

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