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[Love my grandkids]

@beach-mom Actually the name was changed years ago to the Tomb of the Unknowns as there are more than one buried there.

[beach-mom]

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@Love my grandkids wrote:

@beach-mom Actually the name was changed years ago to the Tomb of the Unknowns as there are more than one buried there.

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@Love my grandkids - What you're saying makes sense, as there have always been more than one - WW I, WW II, and the Korean War. 

But the official name according the Department of Defense is as I posted.

[drizzellla]

@Coastalcarolina You made me want to look up the Royal website to learn more.

Buried within Westminster Abbey is the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior, this grave contains the body of an unknown British soldier from the First World War. The body was brought from France to be buried in the Abbey on 11th November 1920, and this year marks the centenary of the interment.

The centenary of the grave of the Unknown Warrior

The Queen mark the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey this week, in a personal tribute ahead of Remembrance Sunday.

In a small private ceremony The Queen honoured the Unknown Warrior and the Royal Family's own associations with the First World War and the grave. As part of the ceremony, a bouquet of flowers featuring orchids and myrtle - based on Her Majesty's own wedding bouquet in 1947 - was placed on the grave of the Unknown Warrior in an act of remembrance. The gesture reflected the custom of Royal bridal bouquets being placed on the grave. Her Majesty also joined the Dean of Westminster in prayers and a moment of reflection, before The Queen's Piper played a lament, The Flowers of the Forest.

Tradition of Royal Brides

During the wedding of Lady Elizabeth (The Queen Mother) and King George VI in 1923, Lady Elizabeth paused on her way down the aisle to lay her bouquet on the grave of the Unknown Warrior, in memory of her brother Fergus who was killed in 1915 at the Battle of Loos during the First World War. Lady Elizabeth became the only Royal bride to walk down the aisle without her bouquet.

Her spontaneous action of remembrance created a beautiful tradition for other Royal Brides to follow, in 1947 Queen Elizabeth II also laid down her bouquet, as did, among others, The Princess Royal, The Countess of Wessex, The Duchess of Cambridge, The Duchess of Sussex and both Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie of York.

[beach-mom]

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@ninjawife wrote:

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@beach-mom wrote:

@Coastalcarolina - I've never been to Westminster, but DD spent a mini semester at a college near there. She said a lot of famous people, royal and others, are buried in chambers underground. 

Maybe he was acknowledging an ancestor. I think Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip are buried under the Abbey, but more toward the front of it. 

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@beach-mom Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are burried at Windsor. 

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Thanks @ninjawife  - I forgot that! I always get my British castles and cathedrals mixed up! 

I do know Queen Elizabeth II, her husband, her parents, and her sister are all buried together. I read originally the room was not large enough for Margaret, so she was cremated and her remains placed on a small table in the room.  

[Happy2BHere]

I read that on the way in Katy Perry stopped and took a selfie of herself standing on the memorial to Winston Churchill in Westminister.

[CelticCrafter]

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@Happy2BHere wrote:

I read that on the way in Katy Perry stopped and took a selfie of herself standing on the memorial to Winston Churchill in Westminister.

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Wow, disrespectful.

[beach-mom]

I believe Katy should have stood to the side. It's too bad her escort didn't gently suggest this.