Prayers were said by the Rector of Sandringham, the Minister of Crathie Kirk and the Chaplain of Windsor Great Park, and by the Dean of Windsor. The service ended with Bach’s Prelude And Fugue In C Minor, played after the national anthem, which was also heard at the end of Prince Philip’s funeral. Nimrod by Sir Edward Elgar was heard at the queen’s coronation in 1953 and was also played before the committal began. JS Bach’s Schmucke Dich, O Liebe Seele - Adorn Yourself, O Dear Soul, a piece for organ, was played as the mourners waited for the service to begin.Īnother was Vaughan Williams’ Rhosymedre, a firm favourite with the royal family, with the music being performed at the wedding of King Charles and his first wife Diana, and at Prince Philip’s funeral. Prince George and Princess Charlotte attend Queen Elizabeth's funeral - video Tradition ran through the service in its music, too, as it featured several pieces that were also heard at Prince Philip’s funeral and other major royal events.
The chapel was completely silent as the Sovereign’s Piper played a lament, A Salute to the Royal Fendersmith, from the doorway between the chapel and the Dean’s Cloister.Īs he played, he walked slowly towards the Deanery in the Cloister and the sound of the music gradually faded away.ĭuring the service, the king sat in the seat which was occupied by the queen on the occasions when she came to the chapel, positioned closest to the altar. The coffin, which was placed on a catafalque draped in purple velvet, was slowly lowered down into the royal vault as the Dean of Windsor said: “Go forth upon thy journey from this world, O Christian soul.” This was to create a symmetry with the three instruments of state that had been removed. The UK falls silent for Queen Elizabeth II's funeral - videoĪt the end of the final hymn, the king placed the Queen’s Company Camp Colour of the Grenadier Guards on the coffin.Īt the same time, the Lord Chamberlain broke his Wand of Office and placed it on the coffin. The removal of the crown from the coffin to the altar was a poignant moment, because in 1953, the crown was taken from the altar in Westminster Abbey and placed on the queen’s head at her coronation, marking the start of a 70-year reign.
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Much of the service had a feel of looking back, repeating what has gone before, and of coming full circle.īefore the final hymn, the Imperial State Crown, the Orb and the Sceptre were removed from the coffin by the Crown Jeweller and, with the Bargemaster and Serjeants-at-Arms, were passed to the Dean who placed them on the altar.
Large crowds and high security for Queen's funeral procession - video She left one hymn to be chosen at the time, and after a discussion between the king and the Dean of Windsor David Conner, the hymn chosen was Westminster Abbey adapted from the Alleluyas in Henry Purcell’s O God, Thou Art My God. The service was discussed with the queen over a number of years and all the prayers and hymns were chosen by her - apart from one.
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