A look inside the Royal Vault at Windsor Castle - who is buried in it with Prince Philip?
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Last year Prince Philip was buried in the Royal burial vault in Windsor castle and recently Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest temporarily in it too. In this video, I look at the history of the vault, how it came to be built, what it looks like, how it is used and some of the members of the royal family that are buried within it.
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Thank you for all your comments, I am grateful for everyone's response. Please bear with me as I answer all your interesting questions, there have been so many and in order to keep track I am not publishing comments until I can respond to them. Are there any subjects you would like me to focus on in future videos?
Perhaps the Henry VII Lady Chapel at Westminster? Or the Chapel Royal at the Tower of London? (Unless you've already covered those.) Keep up the great work, and get some sleep, too!
Thank you for your very informative videos. I would be interested to hear your views on the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore.
Thank you. I’ve wondered about this for a long time because of a story told to me by my late Mum and Dad. They were married in March 1954 and went to London on Honeymoon. One day they visited Windsor and in those days it was very quiet and not the tourist attraction it is now. When they were in St George’s Chapel there were no other visitors there and my Dad asked a gentleman (probably a Verger) where the King was buried and was told that he wasn’t, he was in the Vault and would stay there until the Queen Mother died. He then took my Dad down into the Vault (Mum stayed in the Chapel all on her own) and he was shown the Kings coffin. Dad always laughingly described it as “being left in a dusty old corridor” but it wasn’t until the death of Prince Philip last year that Mum and I realised where he had actually been taken and that this was a huge privilege as Dad had been allowed somewhere where the general public are not allowed to go. I always imagined it as just a plain old “corridor” as Dad had described it so it has been really interesting to find out more about the Royal Vault and it’s history.
I watched all the footage of the Queens burial hoping to learn about the Royal Vault but it never came. Thank you for this wonderfully informative video.
My pleasure.
This poem is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth II may she rest in peace
Queenie
I love the Queen she was never horrible, never mean
She was a wonderful head of state,
with all the worlds problems on her plate, Like politicians destroying her country, upholding traditions and all their superstitions,
She was assiduous to her duties, carried out with Grace and Beauty, she Devoted her life to the service of this Country,
A dutiful wife, bringing life, bearing the sorrows of her nation!
Regal and Sovereign, a Jewel in the Crown Of gods beautiful creation
🙏✨🌍
Beautiful, thanks for sharing your heartfelt poem with us.
An excellent piece of history that many people will be completely unaware.
Hi Allan. Just wanted to say thank you for explaining everything so clearly. You're a natural and I'm certain your channel will grow. Keep it up!
That is really kind of you to say so - I really love the things I talk about and it is a joy when it is appreciated.
In addition to your timely, informative, and respectful video, this is the most thorough and courteous comments section I have ever seen. Thank you for addressing so many viewer questions. I learned a lot.
I worked at Windsor Castle for about 10 years, and an old employeed told me that there was a tradition that, when the coffin of Henry VIII was opened, some liquid was in the bottom of the casket, which was quoted as being "odourless, colourless and flavourless"! Visitors to St George's Chapel should look out for the memorial to Princess Charlotte, which is very moving.
This was FASCINATING. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you for taking the time to comment.
So grateful to you for to explaining how the burial work's within the Royal families! This is fascinating to hear how it is done! Please keep giving us more of the inner workings of this type. You answered so many question that many of us were curious about! Great job!!
Dr. Allan, I love history and I admire you for that.
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This is fascinating , and so very interesting , thank you for doing this on such a emotional day 🕊🌸
Very interesting channel. Appreciated your works on exploring what the Royal vault actually looks like and how it functions. I have just subscribed. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching!
Very interesting. Thank you for posting
Thanks for watching
Thanks for the information about the royal vault & will be waiting for many of this.
More to come!
I would also like to thank you for this tasteful and informative history. It both answered questions as well as provided a comforting insight to
Queen Elizabeth II’s final resting place.
Fascinating. Thsnk you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Interesting! Thank you for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you - most interesting. You answered all my questions.
Nice to see the inside.
This was fascinating thank you 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely fascinating
All the questions I had has been answered. Thanks for this detailed video.
I'm also curious about the supernatural activities, if there had anything such as that happened.
As a member of the Antique and Vintage community I truly appreciate this. I have subscribed and will enjoy watching all of your videos. So well done!
You have an incredible wealth of knowledge about a subject that I think many people have wondered about and not thought that they could find the answers to - or dare not ask. Thank you so much for this video!
I was wondering about this as they were lowering Prince Philip's coffin last year.
The CZcams algorithm led me to this, at almost the time I was planning on searching for such information. Look at those views! More views of this single video than the sum of all your others! Outstanding work! Thank you.
I am utterly astonished by the number of views. Thank you for your kind words.
While some may find the subject matter difficult, your videos are tastefully done.
Great job! Thank you for taking the time to do this! I simply loved it!
Thank you for such an invaluable history of the vault. It is clearly explained and the virtual tour is an eye-opener.
Very interesting many thanks
I had not known about the lowering, until they lowered the queen. I was wondering about it, and wa-la, your video came up. 🙂 Why can’t all historical documentary videos be this excellent and straight to the point?!! Thank you!👏👏👏
An excellent description of our unique Royal Family.Did not know so many young members are resting there.R.I P.❤
Thank you!!!!
I've been wondering exactly what the vault looked like and how it was used! Great video!
Fascinating. It answered several questions I had since the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II last September. Thank you for this video and the illustrative sketches and photographs. I think it would be a proper thing to reinter Henry VIII, Queen Jane and Charles I in more dignified and honorable tombs----like what was done for Richard III.
I've watched so many videos about this since watching the Queen's funeral. This one has been the most informative. Thank you. I find it absolutely fascinating.
Sharing this. Thanks so much for the upload.
God bless Queen Elizabeth Ii. May she rest in Eternal Peace ✝️🙏❤️
How very fascinating. Thank you for such an enlightening and thorough video of the Royal Vault. Regardless of rank, privilege, etc., this video is a reminder of our collective destinies as well as how death levels the playing field in terms of how we spend eternity.
This is fascinating!
Absolutely loved this, thank you. Settling in for a binge watch of your other videos now.
Thank you for this informative and absolutely astounding video of the Royal Vaults. This all clears up much confusion about the goings-on during the funerals and of course the tours of the castle.
Excellent piece of history. I always thought Henry was buried at Westminster Abbey.
No, his father Henry VII is, but Henry VIII always intended to be buried at Windsor and when his wife Jane Seymour was that was the clincher. He had made lavish plans for his burial, none of which came to anything.
Very informative-- thanks
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the explanation! I was researching information on the vault yesterday but couldn’t find much. Your video is excellent!
Thanks for showing the Royal Vault where our beloved Queen Elizabeth ll has now been
laid to rest.👑 May Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll 👑 RIP 🌹🙏❤
This was a great history lesson and a chance to look back on our past! 🌹
Glad you enjoyed it
This taught me a lot . Answered all my questions . Incredible history. 🙏
Fascinating history thank you for sharing this
Thank you Allan for your very informative info on the history of the Royal vault. I really did learn a lot from all the information you had given in this video. I’m an American and I do know a little history but not this kind of history that you gave and I really do appreciate your knowledge on the Burials of the Royal Family throughout the history. God bless you, Sue M.🙏🏻❤️😊👍👍❌⭕️
You are very welcome, I am really glad you enjoyed it.
very informative Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
You did a great job explaining. I'm now curious about some of the royals you talked about, enough to start revisiting their history. So thank you!
Fascinating!! TY!
Thank you. I found this most fascinating as I was wondering what the royal vault would look like as I'm sure most people would have been intrigued.
Death and burial are fascinating subjects to some.
Absolutely fascinating, and by far the best video online concerning this subject. It is beautifully illustrated and described. For anyone interested in the subject generally there is a book called ‘British Royal Tombs’ by Professor Aidan Dobson
Wow.... Royalty vault. Very well protected. Great info. Thanks
I have just discovered by chance your videos and find them really interesting.I'm a French citizen , I have also been steeped in English language and culture ever since 1970 .My interest has never waned over the years , it even keeps growing !
Interesting. Thank you.
You're welcome
Ur video and all answers from u on comments section cleared all my doubts .Thank you very much for ur effort .Take care.best wishes for ever
It's my pleasure
Thank you for sharing, absolutely great to hear this history.
Wow! Thanks for sharing!
so basically they are NOT buried underground..instead they are shelved somewhere in the underground area. Does the Queen undergo embalmment?
Yes, they are buried in a chamber on shelves. I believe she is embalmed, her father was.
Yup and the coffin is lined with lead in order to keep possible odours out
Thank you for this video-it must have been a long day for you-wishing you a good evening from the Netherlands.
Thank you! It has been a very emotional day.
Much larger than I first thought. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
Well done
Thank you very interesting
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you for posting this Alan, really interesting video already looking forward to others that you will post in the future.
Thank you so much for the vault clarification. I was wondering about it all day. One learns something new every day.
Since you've been replying, please can you tell me a little about the Royal vault? When the coffin is lowered, is there someone on the lower level who moves the coffin to its place? Do the royals ever visit the royal vault?
There is a spiral staircase near the altar that takes you down to the vault, Queen Victoria was a frequent visitor - I'm not sure of the present family go down. I suspect that the bearer party descend the stairs and move the coffin along the broad passage into the vault. I understand there is both the width and height to do that.
I do av the same question which when the coffin is lowered is someone down there who moves the coffin n who is that
@@partasarathiperumal2781 probably the soldiers.
@@partasarathiperumal2781 it is done via electric motor.
So, does that mean the royals never get properly buried ? You mentioned coffins of Windsor ancestors are still there inside the vault ...
I couldn't imagine being buried in a vault. A person's resting place, no matter who they were in life, should be the ultimate momento mori. In a couple thousand years, no amount of embalming fluid, pressure and temperature monitored vaults or formaldehyde can reverse the fact that these vaults will be nothing more than a relic of a forgotten time, same with the Romans and Egyptians with their "marvelous" burial conditions.
Agreed, studying these things and how nature takes its course, I have very much concluded that I want as natural a burial as possible without the timber, lead and embalming fluid.
@@allanbarton So just buried as is or a Tibetan Sky Burial?
@@WarhammerWings just buried in the coffin.
Some cemeteries now have an area for green or natural burial. No embalming, coffin or vault. Obviously it must occur in a day or two of the death.
@@allanbarton or volunteer to be turned to compost or fertilizer. This way you’ll always be one with nature.
Thank you very much for sharing😍
Wow thank you so much for sharing this. Wonderful!
Hello sir. Thanks for explaining the royal vault and it's history in great detail. I would like to know that are there any unknown burial ground that still exist like this one of charles 1
I think we know where all of the monarchs are buried since the 13th century, some of the burial places in Westminster Abbey are not marked, but the burial places were rediscovered in the 19th century.
I love that you truly can barely keep it together when presenting this 300 year old cartoon. A man after my own historical heart
Ha, ha - yes I do find it difficult to keep it together at times. Bless him, George IV was quite a ridiculous person.
Thank you so much for explaine history of Royal family and about there own palaces.
Wow .Couldn’t get my head round how this worked .Fascinating thank you
how amazing would it be see this in real life.. mysteriously incredible....why Windsor... May I ask .
Windsor has long been a favoured residence of the royal family, it was George III's residence of choice towards the end of his life hence the construction of his vault. Prior to him only one king had chosen to be buried here, Edward IV, who began the construction of the present St George's chapel. For the Queen it was really the place she felt most at home.
Hi, really appreciate your video about the royal vault, after years of holding coffin in the vault do they deteriorate and if so do they transfer body into new coffin?
You probably saw in the video the coffins of Henry VIII and his wife Jane Seymour, the outer wooden casing rotted away after 500 years leaving only the inner lead coffin.
Excellent info 🕊 Thank you for sharing
Your explanation is great!Allah bless 🙌
Thank you! 🙂
I have a question. At this St George's Chapel is the Albert one on one side and the King George VI on the other?
The Albert memorial chapel is at the east end behind the altar, George VI chapel is off to one side off the north aisle.
Fascinating insight. Thank you.
Excellent piece of history which no one knows about thank you for sharing with us all
Thank you. Will the royal family see the coffin of the Queen and her husband as it is it is laid in the vault. Who maintains the vault.
Most likely, the entrance I believe is in the floor under a black stone that currently bears the name of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. So they will probably see the coffins of both of them as well as the Queen and Prince Philip. St George's chapel is the private chapel of the Queen and is part of the crown estate, it has its own endowments that support its maintenance.
When was the last monarch installed in Westminster Abbey? Assume it's full now?
Last king to be buried in Westminster was George II in 1760 - his vault is not totally full. The Queen's funeral was the first sovereign's funeral in the Abbey since then.
This is so interesting thank you for sharing.
Another brilliant video Allan, thanks
Is the vault in the King George VI chapel similar to the Royal Vault?
Yes I think so, but on a smaller scale. We know there is room for six coffins and given the footprint of the chapel they must be arranged on some sort of shelving.
@@allanbarton I don't believe that the number of spaces for coffins is six. I remember reading that there are four spaces in the small chapel, meant to accommodate the remains of George VI, his wife Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Edinburgh and Queen Elizabeth II. Princess Margaret wished to be buried in the chapel with her parents but, as there was no room for her full-sized coffin, she asked that her body be cremated and her ashes laid with her parents and this was done.
@@corrietapp3178 I have read both four and six - George Pace the architect's instruction was I believe to create a vault for three sovereigns and their consorts, which explains why Margaret's cremated remains could be buried, but not her body. I suppose we will only know when the King dies.
How is the lowering mechanism working? Is it man powered?
An electric motor I believe.
@@allanbarton Ok, thanks.
Absolutely fascinating. I'm sure that you have just answered about 1,000 questions regarding the Royal Vault. I had never heard of it until Prince Philip's death and now I know everything about it. Sensational stuff - thank you.
Brilliant video. Answered questions I’d never thought of! Very informative and also you have a lovely narrative voice 😊 Thank you I hope you do many more.
Where was the Queen’s coffin (Q.Elizabeth) lowered to? A room or vault under the ground, or buried in the ground (in the mud and sand), or what exactly? Besides, if lowered down to a vault, where there guards waiting for the coffin to put it in a specific place? !
To an underground corridor that leads to the vault or chamber underground shown in this video. Yes, I suspect that there were guards waiting to take her coffin down to the vault. It will later be moved to another vault.
@@allanbarton Thank you. Do you happen to know the size of the Vaults or chambers underground? Moreover, I understand from you and others, that these coffins are never ever buried in the ground (in mud and sand) like the rest of the cemeteries across the globe!! Is this true?
@@vancouvercanada8714 very small in this case, room for only six coffins in the George VI vault.
R I P
Fascinating Thank you
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for the research and for sharing it with us!
I wonder who will end up on the shelves.
just one question i am brazilian can you tell me if prince philip has been relocated
I believe he has, to another vault below the chapel of George VI.
@@allanbarton ah sim obrigado por me falar
Brilliant! Thank you so much!
WOW! A lot of history revealed! Thank you!
Who buries Queen and prince Philip in the final resting place? Is royal family members or their heirs do present in burial site for the burial process?
The royal family will be present and the Dean of Windsor who is in charge of the chapel will officiate at the service.