First picture of Queen’s gravestone revealed as Windsor chapel opens to public

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Queen Elizabeth II’s name has been inscribed alongside her mother’s, father’s and husband’s on the stone in the King George VI memorial chapel in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where the monarch was buried. When Philip died 17 months ago at the age of 99, his coffin was interred in the royal vault of St George’s, ready to be moved to the memorial chapel – a pale stone annexe added to the north side of the building behind the North Quire Aisle in 1969 – when the Queen died. open image in gallery The Queen was laid to rest with her late husband, Prince Philip The Queen’s sister Princess Margaret, who died in 2002, was cremated and her ashes were initially placed in the royal vault before being moved to the George VI memorial chapel with her parents’ coffins when the Queen Mother died weeks later. The King George VI memorial chapel, which sits within the walls of St George’s Chapel, was commissioned by the Queen in 1962 as a burial place for her father King George VI, and designed by George Pace and finished in 1969.