Yesterday, the Queen’s casket was lowered into the Royal Vault in St George’s Chapel, where it was interred alongside her beloved husband Prince Philip, after her crown, orb, and sceptre were removed from her coffin so she could enter her grave “as a simple Christian soul.”
About four billion people on Monday viewed the televised proceedings of the state funeral held for Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Elizabeth Alexandra Windsor, officially known as Queen Elizabeth II, who died on September 8, 2022, at age 96.
The event had been projected to smash other TV records, one of which was the opening ceremony of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, which had one of boxing’s greatest heavyweights, Muhammad Ali, given the honour of lighting the Olympic flame.
Most television stations like the BBC, ITV and CNN dedicated time to airing the Queen’s funeral with a large sum of the four billion viewers accessing through the internet.
See some photos from the Queen’s funeral yesterday: