Her coffin was placed on top of that of Mary I in the vault beneath. James I brought the body of his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, to the Abbey from her original burial place at Peterborough in 1612 to ...
they were both buried at the Royal Burial Ground. Following Princess Diana's tragic death on Aug. 31, 1997, she was honored with a funeral at Westminster Abbey on Sept. 6. That same day ...
a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are ...
A silk bag housed in Westminster Abbey was made from the same material as the burial shroud of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, researchers have found. The abbey has discovered that a ...