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[GoneButNotForgotten]

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@Nancy Drew wrote:

Interesting. I never thought of this until you posted. Now I want to know.

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Me too! 

[KathyM23]

@Tinkrbl44   I don't know about the embalming, but I did read that she is in a lead lined casket to prevent decay.

[spumoni99]

From what I read online it sounds like she is indeed been embalmed.

Also in Britian it sounds like open casket is not done for anyone.

[new nickname 4]

Yes, I had thought about how she was dressed.  Olden times, in England people were not clothed but wrapped in linen or wax cloth, but I'm sure that was centuries ago.  As some have posted the only thing I read was her jewelry choice, of only her ring and simple earings.  As to embalming, it's been said it is still a choice in England.  Princess Margaret choose to be cremated so she could be placed between her mother and her father in the vault.  All the caskets are placed in the royal vault, on shelves, not burried in the ground.  A special wing has been added so Queen E and Phillip will be together there.

The caskets are lead lined, Princess Diana's was said to weight over 500 poulnds.  Yikes.  I watched the end of the procession and ceremony today, the young men who carried her casket certainly kept it level and high, with no signs of wavering.  And it seemed to be warm today because when their beaver hats were removed, their hair and foreheads were wet.  Although I did see a guard fainted (fell flat on his face) while holding vigil at the Queens coffin.

I respect all countries burial traditions,  I attended the funeral of an old, dear co-worker years ago.  Her song choices were country western, with her favorite Johnny Cash Ring of Fire.  When they started playing that at her funeral, all her friends and I  looked at each other and stiffled a laugh because she also choose to be creamated.  Thanks Mary, for bring smiles to your ceremony instead of tears.

In the end, it doesn't really matter does it.  I burried my husband in a favorite, well worn, faded t-shirt.  For mom's funeral we forgot to take mom's new shoes to the funeral home, they said they don't usually bury the deceased in shoes, but they would place them in her casket.  Me, I think I want to be dressed in my simple hand made wedding dress, but unfortunately they will have to split the back to drape it across my ample body now.  My niece wants to go green.  Dust to dust I suppose.

Again, all this info is what I read from Daily Mail, but I tend to read the tabloid stories about who did what, holding hands, not liking others etc. with suspicion.  

Thanks for the interesting thread.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@spumoni99 wrote:

If your ghoulish I don't know what I am because I immediately wonderingif she had been embalmed!  I even googled till I found out, I guess it should have been obvious but you never know.  

That is actrually a good question and I am surprised it isn't documented anywhere honestly.

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@spumoni99 

What did it say?   

Did she also take her favorite purse, wallet and drivers' license?  (just kidding, folks)

[cindyNC]

@new nickname 4  your Ring of Fire made me laugh. Too funny. 

[FiddleDeeDee]

Regarding embalming in the UK:

It is not done automatically.  It can not be done unless you give written consent. It is considered "ghoulish" by most including those who work in the medical field (ask our family members who are doctors and nurses in the UK). When our nephew died under suspicious circumstances at the age of 12, my BIL and his wife refused embalming and refused an indepth autopsy (he was disabled and they wanted to do specific tests to see what caused his disability as it wasn't truly known) because they found it "horrible to mutilate a body that way" (BIL is a surgeon, btw). So....he was buried very shortly after his death. Their choice to do so.

You HAVE to embalm to transfer a body overseas for burial. My in-laws will either travel to England on their deathbed to die there because embalming a NOT to be done to either one of them. If they die in the US, their bodies will be handled by their neighbor who is a Rabbi so they can be cremated without being embalmed (read up on Jewish burial practices).  MIL is a retired oncology nurse (OR). She finds it disgusting (embalming). Their ashes will then be transported to the UK for burial.

Do the royals do this? Who knows. They tend to do things that others don't so...don't know. Maybe that's why her coffin is what it is.

[YouGoGirl1]

I read that she will be wearing her Welsh wedding ring and a pair of pearl earrings, I have seen her wear pearl earrings

alot through out the years, probably given to her by her husband.

[Desertdi]

Hey @Kachina624 ......I've actually wondered if she's really "in there".  di

[Kachina624]

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@Desertdi wrote:

Hey @Kachina624 ......I've actually wondered if she's really "in there".  di

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@Desertdi    That admittedly has crossed my mind also.  I've also wondered if they have that million dollar crown firmly attached to the coffin.  What if somebody tried to snatch it?  You can tell they're not in the US.  It would be gone.