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Remembering Queen Victoria in this day of her passing, January twenty second, 1901.
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In 1897, Victoria had written guidelines for her funeral, which turned into to be militia as befitting a soldier's daughter and the pinnacle of the military, and broke conference by using having a white draped coffin.
On 25 January, Edward VII, the Kaiser and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, helped carry her physique into the coffin. She become wearing a white costume and her wedding ceremony veil. An array of mementos commemorating her clan, buddies and servants had been laid within the coffin along with her, at her request, by way of her health professional and dressers. Certainly one of Albert's dressing robes turned into positioned by using her part, with a plaster solid of his hand, when a lock of John Brown's hair, in addition to an image of him, was once positioned in her left hand hid from the view of the loved ones via a delicately put bunch of plants. Pieces of bijou put on Victoria blanketed the marriage ring of John Brown's mom, given to her via Brown in 1883.
Her funeral turned into hung on Saturday, 2 February, in St George's Chapel, Windsor Fort, and after two days of mendacity-in-state, she changed into interred beside Prince Albert in Frogmore Mausoleum at Windsor High-quality Park.
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With a reign of sixty three years, seven months and two days, Victoria turned into the longest-reigning British monarch and the longest-reigning queen regnant in global heritage except her extraordinary-big-granddaughter Elizabeth II passed her on nine September 2015. She become the ultimate monarch of england from the home of Hanover.
