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Prince Philip has joined 24 other members of the Royal Family lying in the vault under St George s Chapel. His body will remain there until transferred by lift upstairs to a side chapel when the Queen dies.
Then the devoted couple can be laid together – in the same final resting place as her father, George VI, her mother and with the ashes of the Queen s sister, Princess Margaret.
A vault with enough room for 44 royals
The Royal Vault is 70ft long and 28ft wide – with space for 32 bodies along two sides and 12 in the middle.
The vault was built in 1810 and George III was the first king to be interred there, in 1820.
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