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Queen Elizabeth II buried next to husband, parents and sister

King Charles III places the Queen's Company Colour of the Grenadier Guards on the Coffin. [Courtesy, Royal Family]

Drawn up in the September sunshine, they stood heads bowed, and rifles reversed as the gun carriage passed from London to Windsor. The scale of the military detachments drawn from different contingents across the commonwealth was much bigger than what was witnessed during Prince Philip's funeral.

Just like her husband, Prince Phillip the Duke of Edinburgh who was laid to rest during the height of the pandemic, Queen Elizabeth also chose the hymns sung and readings at her funeral. A section of the music played included songs played at her wedding to Prince Philip and her coronation seventy years ago.

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