Her coffin was carried by eight black-plumed horses and her body was laid to rest in a mausoleum at Frogmore Estate. According to Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird, Victoria, who loved romantic mementos and gothic mystery, had left instructions for her trusted servants that were for their eyes only. The next day Queen Victoria was laid to rest next to her beloved Albert at the Royal Mausoleum. This article was originally published by HistoryExtra in January 2019, Save up to 49% AND your choice of gift card worth 10* when you subscribe BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed PLUS! As the room filled with the sound of sobbing and weeping mingled with the chanting of the clerics, each son, daughter and grandchild was summoned by name to kiss the queen's hand and say farewell. The last friend the dying monarch demanded to see was her Pomeranian dog, Turi. And so the news of the queens passing was announced to the world. Humiliated by the horses breaking free from his mothers carriage, King Edward VII told Ponsonby that if there were a similar mishap during his mothers burial on February 4, he would never speak to him again. The government ground to a halt as the queen was no longer able to carry out her constitutional duties. This meant that the only event in London on this occasion was a gun carriage procession from one railway station to another: Victoria having died at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, her body was conveyed by boat and train to Victoria Station, then by gun carriage to Paddington Station and then by train to Windsor for the funeral service itself. Queen Victoria ruled Britain for 64 years, so her death on 22 January 1901, sent the country, royal family, and parliament into panic as they realised they had no protocols in place for the death of a reigning monarch. The earls officials were seen dragging guests from their seats to spread them out in order to hide the mistake, while the uncooperative Lord Chamberlain tried to explain why he had requested that the women guests should come in trousers. Her coffin was dropped down a flight of steps. On February 1, the queens body, accompanied by the royal family, was transported to the royal yacht Alberta, with crowds gathering to pay their respects. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Cond Nast. One reason this was true was because people of the era literally lived in close proximity to death. Here's the list of Queen Victoria's Burial Request in her Final Moments Prince Albert, the husband of Queen Victoria, a vigorous man who succumbed to a fever, was not as lucky and died at the age of 42. The abundance of flowers, gathered and brought from all around the U.K. and abroad, helped some of those items go unnoticed. Eventually, the Accession council was convened where the present kingextemporised his accession speech. In a macabre, twisted mixture of death and youth culture, Queen Victoria's secret instructions demanded her entire funeralfrom horses, to mourning attire, to funeral crepebe arrayed in white. In desperation, he called on Lord Roberts, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the British Army, who gave Ponsonby carte blanche to organise the military as he saw fit. Victoria was the longest-ruling British monarch, reigning from 1837-1901. The original plans are for the Queen's coffin to process on a gun carriage to the.
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