While Westminster Abbey is famous as the final resting place of monarchs, it is also the burial site for many "commoners" who achieved extraordinary greatness. The most iconic is the Unknown Warrior, an unidentified British soldier from WWI who represents all who fell in battle. In Poets' Corner, literary giants who were not of noble birth are interred, including Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, and Rudyard Kipling. The Abbey also honors scientific revolutionaries like Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Stephen Hawking, whose remains are buried near the high altar. Other notable commoners include the abolitionist William Wilberforce and the legendary actor Sir Laurence Olivier. Even the 18th-century composer George Frideric Handel, though born in Germany, was buried here as a naturalized British citizen. These individuals were granted the honor of burial in the Abbey not because of their lineage, but because their contributions to art, science, and humanity fundamentally shaped British and global history.
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is a Royal Peculiar, and the Chapel of the Order of the Garter. St George's Chapel was founded in the 14th century by King Edward III and extensively enlarged in the late 15th century.