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His eldest daughter, who at the age of 25 had become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/08\/breaking-queen-elizabeth-ii-is-dead\/\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>, followed in a horse-drawn coach.<\/p>\n<p>A year later on March 24, George\u2019s mother, the dowager Queen Mary, died aged 85. Over two days, 120,000 people paid homage at Westminster.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1979: Lord Mountbatten<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On August 27, 1979, Louis Mountbatten, the queen\u2019s cousin and last viceroy of India, was killed at the age of 79, by an Irish Republican Army bomb placed on his boat.<\/p>\n<p>The assassination rocked the United Kingdom. Mountbatten was a decorated naval commander, uncle of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s husband, Prince Philip, and mentor of the couple\u2019s eldest son and heir, Prince Charles.<\/p>\n<p>On September 5, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in London along with representatives of the British armed forces, US Marines, and French, Canadian, Indian and Burmese <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/20\/why-243-soldiers-resigned-army\/\">soldiers<\/a> to pay him a solemn farewell.<\/p>\n<p>An escort of six tanks took the coffin from Westminster Abbey to Waterloo station where it was transported to Romsey, near Southampton, southern England, for burial at the town\u2019s abbey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1997: Princess Diana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On September 6, 1997, the country came to a standstill for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, who died in Paris on August 31 in a car crash aged 36.<\/p>\n<p>Her death sent shockwaves around the world. Millions of people lined the streets and an estimated 2.5 billion viewers watched the service on television.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-container desktop-only margin-top margin-bottom \">\n<div class=\"ad-container-inner\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1652281233069-0\" class=\"\" data-google-query-id=\"CJDxp4OToPoCFVBB0wodS1ED-w\">\n<p>When the procession passed Buckingham Palace, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/10\/name-aso-rock-after-queen-elizabeth-not-unn-ohanaeze-tells-fg\/\">Queen Elizabeth II<\/a>, who had been criticised for her stand-offish initial reaction to the death of the former wife of Prince Charles, publicly bowed her head.<\/p>\n<p>The couple\u2019s two young sons, princes William and Harry, walked, heads bowed, behind their mother\u2019s coffin. Diana was buried at Althorp, her family\u2019s historic home in Northampton shire, on an island in the middle of a lake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002: Princess Margaret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Led by Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s frail 101-year-old mother, also called Elizabeth, the royal family on February 15, 2002, laid to rest the monarch\u2019s younger sister Princess Margaret, who had died six days earlier aged 71 after a series of strokes.<\/p>\n<p>The private funeral was attended by about 450 family and friends, including 30 or so members of the royal family such as the queen, Margaret\u2019s ex-husband Lord Snowdon, and her two children Viscount Linley and Lady Sarah Chatto.<\/p>\n<p>Despite concerns over her own health, the Queen Mother attended the service at St George\u2019s Chapel in Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n<p>It was exactly 50 years since she had buried her husband, King George VI. In a break with royal tradition, Margaret was cremated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2002: The Queen Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just seven weeks after Margaret, the Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth, died in her sleep on March 30 at Windsor. Her funeral on April 9 marked the end of an era.<\/p>\n<p>The royal matriarch was the last empress consort of India and a link to a bygone age. She was much loved as a symbol of resistance to the Nazi enemy during World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Over four days, more than 200,000 people filed past her coffin paying their respects. Her funeral at Westminster Abbey was attended by 2,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>More than a million people lined the 37-kilometre (23-mile) route taken by the funeral procession to Windsor, where she was interred with her husband at the King George VI memorial chapel, and alongside Margaret\u2019s ashes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2021: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s husband of 73 years died on April 9, 2021, just a few months shy of his 100th birthday and after a lengthy stay in hospital for a heart condition.<\/p>\n<p>Coronavirus restrictions limited his funeral on April 18 to just 30 people, with social distancing, face masks \u2014 and no public crowds.<\/p>\n<p>The duke\u2019s coffin was borne to St George\u2019s Chapel on a specially adapted Land Rover he had designed himself.<\/p>\n<p>His remains were interred in the Royal Vault at Windsor, with instructions to be transferred on his wife\u2019s death to the King George VI memorial chapel.<\/p>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As world leaders meet today to pay the last respect to Queen Elizabeth II, it is interesting to note that funerals for senior royals since World War II have tended to be very\u00a0public affairs, with pomp, pageantry and popular fervour. 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