Queen Victoria and Prince Albert had long planned to build a mausoleum for their final resting place - a burial tradition that was more Germanic than English - and within a few days of Albert's premature death on 14 December 1861 Victoria had chosen a site close to the mausoleum recently built for her mother the ...

Queen Victoria was buried at the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore because she explicitly wished to be laid to rest alongside her beloved husband, Prince Albert, who had died 40 years before her. Following Albert's death in 1861, Victoria was devastated and immediately commissioned the construction of the magnificent mausoleum on the grounds of the Home Park at Windsor. She broke with the tradition of burying monarchs in the Royal Vault at St George’s Chapel or Westminster Abbey because she viewed the Frogmore Mausoleum as a private, intimate sanctuary for her and Albert to be together in perpetuity. The interior is decorated in an opulent Italianate style, reflecting Albert's tastes. When Victoria passed away in 1901, she was placed in the grand granite sarcophagus that had been prepared for her decades earlier, positioned right next to Albert. To this day, the mausoleum remains a powerful architectural monument to their famous love story and is only open to the public on a very limited number of days each year.