The

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of the

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, occurred on 2 February 1901, after her death on 22 January. It was one of the largest gatherings of

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Description

In 1897, Victoria had written instructions for her funeral, which was to be military as befitting a soldier's daughter and the head of the army, and feature white dress instead of black. On 25 January, her body was lifted into the coffin by her sons

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and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, and her grandson the

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Wilhelm II , house = Hohenzollern , father = Frederick III, German Emperor , mother = Victoria, Princess Royal , religion = Lutheranism (Prussian United) , signature = Wilhelm II, German Emperor Signature-.svg Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor ...

. She was dressed in a white dress and her wedding veil. An array of mementos commemorating her extended family, friends and servants were laid in the coffin with her, at her request, by her doctor and dressers. A dressing gown that had belonged to her husband Albert who had died 40 years earlier, was placed by her side, along with a plaster cast of his hand, while a lock of John Brown's hair, along with a picture of him, was placed in her left hand concealed from the view of the family by a carefully positioned bunch of flowers. Items of jewellery placed on Victoria included the wedding ring of John Brown's mother, given to her by Brown in 1883. Her funeral was held on Saturday, 2 February, in

St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the Gart ...

, and after two days of lying-in-state, she was interred beside Prince Albert in the Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore at

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Westminster Abbey 1901 Queen Victoria funeral service

The state funeral of Queen Victoria took place in February 1901; it had been 64 years since the last burial of a monarch. Victoria left strict instructions regarding the service and associated ceremonies and instituted a number of changes, several of which set a precedent for state (and indeed ceremonial) funerals that have taken place since. First, she disliked the preponderance of funereal black; henceforward, there would be no black cloaks, drapes or canopy, and Victoria requested a white pall for her coffin. Second, she expressed a desire to be buried as "a soldier's daughter". The procession, therefore, became much more a military procession, with the peers, privy counsellors and judiciary no longer taking part ''en masse''. Her pallbearers were equerries rather than dukes (as had previously been customary), and for the first time, a

gun carriage A gun carriage is a frame and mount that supports the gun barrel of an artillery piece, allowing it to be maneuvered and fired. These platforms often had wheels so that the artillery pieces could be moved more easily. Gun carriages are also use ...

was employed to convey the monarch's coffin. Third, Victoria requested that there should be no public lying in state. 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

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on the

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, 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. The Passing of a Great Queen

The rare sight of a state funeral cortège travelling by ship provided a striking spectacle: Victoria's body was carried on board HMY ''Alberta'' from

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, with a suite of yachts following conveying the new king, Edward VII, and other mourners. Minute guns were fired by the assembled fleet as the yacht passed by. Victoria's body remained on board ship overnight before being conveyed by gun carriage to Gosport railway station the following day for the train journey to London. Victoria broke convention by having a white draped coffin. At Windsor, when the royal coffin was loaded atop the

for the procession and the artillery horses took the weight, granddaughter of Queen Victoria

Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone (Alice Mary Victoria Augusta Pauline; 25 February 1883 – 3 January 1981) was a member of the British royal family. She is the longest-lived British princess of royal blood, and was the last surviving grand ...

said the day was very cold and "nothing in the world would make them start". An attendant Royal Guard from HMS ''Excellent'' was shortly then ordered to haul the gun carriage with ropes instead, a disruption which subsequently became state funeral tradition. She further observed that the

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

, responsible for the horses and the gun carriage, "were furious... humiliated beyond words" by the incident. Victoria's children had married into the great royal families of Europe and a number of foreign monarchs were in attendance including

of Germany as well as the heir-presumptive to the

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throne

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Funeral service

The service in the afternoon of Saturday 2 February at St George's Chapel followed the liturgy of the Burial Service in the ''

Book of Common Prayer The ''Book of Common Prayer'' (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign ...

'' and was the first royal funeral for which a printed order of service had been produced. The organisation of the service lay with the

Dean of Windsor The Dean of Windsor is the spiritual head of the canons of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, England. The dean chairs meetings of the Chapter of Canons as ''primus inter pares''. The post of Dean of Wolverhampton was assimilated to the dea ...

and the

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, with the active participation of the

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and

York York is a cathedral city with Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England. It is the historic county town of Yorkshire. The city has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a ...

. The music started with the first of the funeral sentences by

William Croft William Croft (baptised 30 December 1678 – 14 August 1727) was an English composer and organist. Life Croft was born at the Manor House, Nether Ettington, Warwickshire. He was educated at the Chapel Royal under the instruction of John Blow ...

and Psalm 15 to a setting by William Felton. After the lesson came further funeral sentences sung as

anthem An anthem is a musical composition of celebration, usually used as a symbol for a distinct group, particularly the national anthems of countries. Originally, and in music theory and religious contexts, it also refers more particularly to short s ...

s; ''Man that is born'' by

Samuel Sebastian Wesley Samuel Sebastian Wesley (14 August 1810 – 19 April 1876) was an English organist and composer. Wesley married Mary Anne Merewether and had 6 children. He is often referred to as S.S. Wesley to avoid confusion with his father Samuel Wesley. Bio ...

and ''Thou knowest Lord'' by

Henry Purcell Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest E ...

. The

Lord's Prayer The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, is a central Christian prayer which Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gosp ...

in Latin by

Charles Gounod Charles-François Gounod (; ; 17 June 181818 October 1893), usually known as Charles Gounod, was a French composer. He wrote twelve operas, of which the most popular has always been ''Faust (opera), Faust'' (1859); his ''Roméo et Juliette'' (18 ...

, and the anthem ''How blest are they'' by

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky , group=n ( ; 7 May 1840 – 6 November 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music would make a lasting impression internationally. He wrote some of the most popu ...

followed. After the

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had proclaimed the queen's styles and titles, the anthem ''Blest are the departed'' by

Louis Spohr Louis Spohr (, 5 April 178422 October 1859), baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Highly regarded during his lifetime, Spohr composed ten symphonies, t ...

was reportedly followed by the Dresden amen. The inclusion of so much music by foreign composers was unprecedented and was not repeated in later royal funerals where British music predominated. At the end of the service, the funeral march attributed to

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classic ...

but actually by Johann Heinrich Walch was played instead of the traditional "Dead March" from ''Saul'' because Victoria was known to dislike

Handel George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (; baptised , ; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos. Handel received his training i ...

's music and was reported to have forbidden its use at her funeral. Royal Mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Frogmore, Berkshire

Interment service

The

interment Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...

at the nearby Frogmore Mausolem was held two days after the funeral on 4 February. The procession from St George's Chapel was accompanied by massed military bands playing funeral marches, but in the final part of the journey, pipers played a

lament A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about somet ...

, the

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Dead March. Arriving at the mausoleum, the choir of St George's sang ''Yea, thou I walk'' from Sir

Arthur Sullivan Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for 14 comic opera, operatic Gilbert and Sullivan, collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including ''H.M.S. Pinaf ...

's oratorio, '' The Light of the World''. This was followed by the funeral sentences by Wesley and Purcell that had been sung at the funeral, ''Lord have mercy'' by

Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (23 November 1585; also Tallys or Talles) was an English composer of High Renaissance music. His compositions are primarily vocal, and he occupies a primary place in anthologies of English choral music. Tallis is considered one o ...

and Gounoud's Lord's Prayer. A hymn, ''Sleep thy last sleep'', preceded the conluding prayers read by the Dean of Windsor, after which Sullivan's anthem, ''The face of death'' and Sir

John Stainer Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though seldom performed today (with the exception of ''The Crucifixion'', still heard at Passiontide in some churches of the Anglican Communi ...

's ''Sevenfold Amen'' concluded the service.Range 2016, pp. 275-276

Guests

As per report in London Gazette.

Immediate family

* The King and

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, ''the late Queen's son and daughter-in-law'' ** The Duchess of Cornwall and York, ''the late Queen's granddaughter-in-law'' ** The Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife and The Duke of Fife, ''the late Queen's granddaughter and grandson-in-law'' ** The Princess Victoria, ''the late Queen's granddaughter'' **

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and

Prince Charles of Denmark Prince Charles of Denmark and Norway (26 October 1680 – 8 June 1729) was the fourth son of Christian V of Denmark and his consort Queen Charlotte Amalie, and thus a younger brother of King Frederick IV. He never married and had no children, no ...

, ''the late Queen's granddaughter and grandson-in-law'' * The Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duchess of Edinburgh), ''the late Queen's daughter-in-law'' ** The Crown Prince of Romania, ''the late Queen's grandson-in-law'' (representing the

King of Romania The King of Romania (Romanian: ''Regele României'') or King of the Romanians (Romanian: ''Regele Românilor''), was the title of the monarch of the Kingdom of Romania from 1881 until 1947, when the Romanian Workers' Party proclaimed the Romani ...

) ** The Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, ''the late Queen's grandson-in-law and half-great-nephew'' **

Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Princess Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (20 April 1884 – 13 July 1966) was a member of the British royal family, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria. She later married into the Spanish royal family, and was t ...

, ''the late Queen's granddaughter'' * The Duke and Duchess of Connaught and Strathearn, ''the late Queen's son and daughter-in-law'' **

Princess Margaret of Connaught Princess Margaret of Connaught (Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah; 15 January 1882 – 1 May 1920) was Crown Princess of Sweden as the first wife of the future King Gustaf VI Adolf. She was the elder daughter of Prince Arthur, Duke ...

, ''the late Queen's granddaughter'' ** Prince Arthur of Connaught, ''the late Queen's grandson'' **

Princess Patricia of Connaught Lady Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth Ramsay, (born Princess Patricia of Connaught; 17 March 1886 – 12 January 1974) was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Upon her marriage to Alexander Ramsay, she relinquished her title of a British pri ...

, ''the late Queen's granddaughter'' * The Duchess of Albany, ''the late Queen's daughter-in-law'' ** Princess Alice of Albany, ''the late Queen's granddaughter'' ** The Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Duke of Albany), ''the late Queen's grandson'' * '' The Empress Frederick, Queen Mother of Prussia's family:'' ** The German Emperor, ''the late Queen's grandson'' *** The German Crown Prince, ''the late Queen's great-grandson'' ** The Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, ''the late Queen's grandson-in-law'' (representing the

Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Saxe-Meiningen (; german: Sachsen-Meiningen ) was one of the Saxon duchies held by the Ernestine line of the Wettin dynasty, located in the southwest of the present-day German state of Thuringia. Established in 1681, by partition of the Ernest ...

) *** Prince Heinrich XXX of Reuss-Köstritz, ''the late Queen's great-grandson-in-law'' (representing the Prince Reuss Younger Line) ** Prince Henry of Prussia, ''the late Queen's grandson'' **

and

Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe (german: Adolf Wilhelm Viktor; 20 July 1859 – 9 July 1916) was a German prince of the House of Schaumburg-Lippe and a Prussian General of the Cavalry. He was regent of the Principality of Lippe from 1895 t ...

, ''the late Queen's granddaughter and grandson-in-law'' (representing the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe) ** The Duke of Sparta, ''the late Queen's grandson-in-law'' **

Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse Frederick Charles Louis Constantine, Prince and Landgrave of Hesse (german: Friedrich Karl Ludwig Konstantin Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen-Kassel; fi, Fredrik Kaarle; 1 May 1868 – 28 May 1940), was the brother-in-law of the German Emp ...

, ''the late Queen's grandson-in-law'' * '' Grand Duchess Alice of Hesse and by Rhine's family: **

and

Prince Louis of Battenberg Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, (24 May 185411 September 1921), formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related by marriage to the British ...

, ''the late Queen's granddaughter and grandson-in-law'' ** The Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, ''the late Queen's grandson'' *

and

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (Frederick Christian Charles Augustus; 22 January 1831 – 28 October 1917) was a minor Danish-born German prince who became a member of the British royal family through his marriage to Princess Helena ...

, ''the late Queen's daughter and son-in-law'' **

Prince Albert of Schleswig-Holstein Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (Albert John Charles Frederick Alfred George; 26 February 1869 – 27 April 1931), was a grandson of Queen Victoria. He was the second son of Victoria's daughter Princess Helena by her husband Prince Christian ...

, ''the late Queen's grandson'' ** Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, ''the late Queen's granddaughter'' ** Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein, ''the late Queen's granddaughter'' * The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll and The Duke of Argyll, ''the late Queen's daughter and son-in-law'' * Princess Henry of Battenberg, ''the late Queen's daughter'' ** Prince Alexander of Battenberg, ''the late Queen's grandson'' ''Other descendants of the late Queen's paternal grandfather,

King George III George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and of Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great B ...

and their families:'' * The Duke of Cambridge, ''the late Queen's first cousin'' * '' The Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz's family:'' ** Duke Adolphus Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, ''the late Queen's first cousin twice removed'' (representing the

Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a territory in Northern Germany, held by the younger line of the House of Mecklenburg residing in Neustrelitz. Like the neighbouring Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, it was a sovereign member stat ...

) * ''

Princess Mary Adelaide, Duchess of Teck Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth of Cambridge (27 November 1833 – 27 October 1897), later Duchess of Teck, was a member of the British royal family. She was one of the first royals to patronise a wide range of charities. Mary Ade ...

's family:'' ** The Duke of Teck, ''the late Queen's first cousin once removed'' ** Prince Francis of Teck, ''the late Queen's first cousin once removed'' **

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, ''the late Queen's first cousin once removed'' * Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen, ''husband of the late Queen's first cousin once removed'' * The Hon. Aubrey FitzClarence, ''the late Queen's double first cousin twice removed''

Extended family

* The Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, ''the late Queen's half-nephew'' * Count Edward Gleichen, ''the late Queen's half-great-nephew'' * The Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, ''the late Queen's half-great-nephew'' * The King of the Belgians, ''the late Queen's first cousin'' * Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, ''the late Queen's first cousin once removed'' **

Prince Leopold Clement of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Prince Leopold Clement Philipp August Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (19 July 1878 – 27 April 1916) was an Austro-Hungarian officer and the heir apparent to the wealth of the House of Koháry. His death in a murder–suicide shocked the royal ...

, ''the late Queen's double first cousin twice removed'' * The King of Portugal, ''the late Queen's first cousin twice removed'' * Duke Robert of Württemberg, ''the late Queen's first cousin twice removed'' (representing the

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)

Other foreign royalty

* The King of the Hellenes * The Crown Prince of Denmark (representing the

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) * The Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway (representing the King of Sweden and Norway) *

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria, (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I. Fr ...

(representing the

Austrian Emperor The Emperor of Austria (german: Kaiser von Österreich) was the ruler of the Austrian Empire and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A hereditary imperial title and office proclaimed in 1804 by Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, a member of the Hou ...

) *

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович, r=Mikhail Aleksandrovich; 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas ...

(representing the

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) * The Duke of Aosta (representing the

King of Italy King of Italy ( it, links=no, Re d'Italia; la, links=no, Rex Italiae) was the title given to the ruler of the Kingdom of Italy after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The first to take the title was Odoacer, a barbarian military leader ...

) * The Crown Prince of Siam (representing the

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) * The Duke of Saxony (representing the

King of Saxony This article lists dukes, electors, and kings ruling over different territories named Saxony from the beginning of the Saxon Duchy in the 6th century to the end of the German monarchies in 1918. The electors of Saxony from John the Steadfast on ...

) * The Hereditary Grand Duke of Baden (representing the

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) *

Prince Arnulf of Bavaria Prince Arnulf of Bavaria (german: Franz Joseph Arnulf Adalbert Maria Prinz von Bayern; 6 July 1852 – 12 November 1907) was a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Wittelsbach and a General of Infantry. Early life Arnulf was born in Munich, Bava ...

(representing the Prince Regent of Bavaria) *

Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, , PC(Ire) (11 October 1823 – 16 November 1902) was a British military officer of German parents. After a career in the Grenadier Guards, he became Major General commanding the Brigade ...

(representing the

Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (german: Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach) was a historical German state, created as a duchy in 1809 by the merger of the Ernestine duchies of Saxe-Weimar and Saxe-Eisenach, which had been in personal union since 1741. It was raised ...

) * The Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont * The Prince of Hohenzollern * Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik (representing the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan) * Prince Ernst of Saxe-Altenburg (representing the Duke of Saxe-Altenburg)

Nobility

* The Duke of Norfolk * The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch * The Duke of Northumberland * The Duke of Beaufort * The Duke of Montrose *

The Duke of Portland William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, (14 April 173830 October 1809) was a British Whig and then a Tory politician during the late Georgian era. He served as Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1792–1809) an ...

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* The Earl Waldegrave * The Earl of Clarendon * The Earl of Pembroke * The Earl of Harewood * The Earl of Haddington * The Earl Cawdor * The Earl Howe * The Earl of Kintore * The Earl of Gosford * The Earl of Denbigh * The Countess of Lytton * The Viscount Valentia * The Viscount Galway * The Viscount Wolseley * The Lord Roberts * The Lord Belper * The Baron Lawrence * The Lord Colville of Culross * The Lord Churchill *

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Earl of March Earl of March is a title that has been created several times in the Peerage of Scotland and the Peerage of England. The title derived from the "marches" or borderlands between England and either Wales ( Welsh Marches) or Scotland ( Scottish ...

* Lord William Cecil *

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References

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Description

Funeral service

Interment service

Guests

Immediate family

Extended family

Other foreign royalty

Nobility

See also

References