Thanks Candace. From the diagram it indicates that the Queen's coffin was placed above Prince Philip's and adjacent to her mother's so it seems that order of death has been followed after all. Wonder why Prince Philip wasn't just placed in the vault after his funeral instead of having to deal with the burial of both coffins?
Seems to be a bit of a tradition. When the previous Duke of Kent was killed in the plane crash in 1942 his coffin was placed in the Royal Burial Vault & remaind there for 26 years. It was moved to the royal burial ground at Frogmore the day prior to his widow's burial in 1968.
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