The Ss. And that makes sense, since so many royals and notable figures are interred there. Henry III, who built the church you see today, is buried near him. 2 February 1901 – Funeral of HM Queen Victoria in St George’s Chapel, afterwards placed in the Albert Memorial Chapel (transferred to Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore 4 February 1901). The Royal Mausoleum iconography shows a remarkable ecclesiastical aspect, due to the relevant role assumed by the apostles and the four doctors. The sunken round niches of the high sides have a clear paschal meaning: the baptism participating in the death of … The coffin was buried at Frogmore behind the Royal Mausoleum. It contains the Pantheon of the kings of Spain. Infant child of Queen Anne(d.1696). Most of Britain's monarchs are buried in Westminster Abbey and St George's Chapel, but both Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are in a mausoleum in Frogmore Gardens. In 1928, the Royal Burial Ground at Frogmore, adjacent to Queen Victoria’s mausoleum and near Windsor Castle, was consecrated as a cemetery for junior members of the British Royal Family. This gigantic mausoleum only houses two people’s remains: Mumtaz Mahal’s and Shah Jahan’s. Royal tombs. The Grand Ducal Mausoleum was designed by architect David Grimm and constructed 1897-1908. Although many simply admire the Taj Mahal as a masterwork of construction and architecture, it’s still a monument to Mumtaz Mahal. St. George’s Chapel is a Royal Peculiar property, which means it’s under the direct jurisdiction of the royal monarch. After the October Revolution, the fates of the cathedral and the mausoleum were very different. Visitors can find cenotaphs for her and Shah Jahan inside it. 20 May 1910 – HM King Edward VII, in the Royal Vault (later buried in a sarcophagus on the south side of the altar). After the death of Charles I king of Spain (also known as Charles V as Holy Roman Emperor), there was the urged need of a burial monument for this monarch. Mumtaz Mahal. One monarch, Edward VIII who abdicated in 1936 after ten months on the throne, was buried at the Royal Burial Ground. When the entire mausoleum building was completed in 1865, twenty members of the royal family were moved from the 1825 crypt near the original ʻIolani Palace, and this site became the primary resting place for Hawaiian royalty (only Kings Kamehameha I and Lunalilo are not buried here). Who’s Currently Buried in the Taj Mahal? Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of 30 kings and queens starting with King Edward the Confessor whose magnificent shrine stands just behind the High Altar. Edward’s wife, Wallis Simpson died in April 1986, and she is buried next to her husband at the site. Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII (d. 1537) Charles I (d.1649). The Mausoleum was built to hold 60 tombs, but by 1916 there were only 13 people buried, and eight of them had been moved from the cathedral. So his soon, Philippe II, established here the Royal Mausoleum. Quire: Henry VIII (d. 1547). In fact, the majority of modern royals are buried in the tombs of St. George’s Chapel or nearby at the Frogmore House’s Royal Burial Ground.