This concludes 70 years of reign.
Eleven days after her death, Queen Elizabeth II was buried Monday evening at Windsor Castle.
She was transferred, with her husband Philip, who died in 2021, to the George VI memorial in St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, the royal family announced in a press release.
Earlier in the day, after a grandiose funeral at Westminster Abbey, and a long journey from the famous religious building, the sovereign's coffin entered the castle to the applause and tears of a huge massed crowd. since morning around the royal residence.
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It is "here, in the Saint-Georges chapel where she so often prayed", recalled the dean, that the monarch at the age of 70, seven months and two days of reign had wished that a final, more intimate ceremony be held. – with some 800 people all the same – than the grandiose one organized in the morning at Westminster Abbey, in the presence of many heads of state and crowned heads.
It was after this ceremony that the monarch was buried, in privacy this time.
"In a famous speech, delivered on his 21st birthday, his late Majesty declared that his whole life would be devoted to the service of the nation and the Commonwealth", recalled the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the Anglican Church which was ruled by the queen.
“Rarely has a promise been so well kept,” he added, paying tribute to a “joyful, present for so many people, touching a multitude of lives” queen.
Charles III at the helm
More and more frail in recent months, suffering from mobility problems, Elizabeth II still received, smiling, two days before her death, the brand new Prime Minister Liz Truss, her last public photo.
She was the oldest serving leader in the world.
During her life, she went through the Second World War, saw the dissolution of the British Empire, the entry and then the exit of the European Union.
After exhausting days of travels in the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom, walkabouts combined with the mourning of a mother, Charles III will have to write his own story.
Some dreamed of a quick transition with the new Prince of Wales, his son William, 40.
But the king promised, like his mother, to serve all his life.
If its popularity rating has skyrocketed, the many challenges are just beginning, with some Commonwealth countries not hiding their desire to break away from the monarchy.
