![]() ![]() These are the United Kingdom, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu. The monarch is head of state of fifteen sovereign states. The children and male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip also genealogically belong to the House of Oldenburg since Philip was by birth a member of the Glücksburg branch of that house. Since it was founded in 1917, there have been five British monarchs of the House of Windsor: George V, Edward VIII, George VI, Elizabeth II, and Charles III. The royal house's name was inspired by the historic Windsor Castle estate. The House of Windsor is a British royal house, and currently the reigning house of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. ^ b: The House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha is a cadet branch of the House of Wettin. As the Westminster Gazette reported after the funeral, the queen had outlived all the members of her Privy Council who were alive in 1837 all the peers who had held their titles in 1837 (except Earl Nelson, who was 14 in that year) and all the members who had sat in the House of Commons at the time of her accession.^ a: The children and male-line descendants of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip genealogically belong to the House of Oldenburg through one of its branches, the House of Glücksburg. The funeral had cost £35,500 (£4.5 million). How much did Queen Victoria's funeral cost? It was, he added, a “sacrilege to gaze, and I turned the glass and looked no more”. Although he was a quarter of a mile away, the reporter observed that Edward’s face was “so white and very set, the real king, unaware that any man could see him, intensely melancholy, intensely sad”. One reporter recalled looking at the new king (who was aboard another yacht) through his telescope. The coffin had to be transported from Osborne House to the port of Cowes, then across the Solent on the royal yacht Alberta. It also testifies to the imagery surrounding Queen Victoria, as both pious and feminine, yet a formidable leader. The film clearly demonstrates the influence of royalty (five reigning monarchs, as well as many other members of royal families, accompanied Edward VII in the procession), as well as the prestige of the empire, navy and army. Joanna Bourke examines newsreel footage of Queen Victoria's "remarkable" funeral procession in February 1901 (You can see the moving images of this procession on British Pathé’s newsreel). Prince Louis Battenberg (grandfather of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh) rescued the day, suggesting: “If it is impossible to mend the traces you can always get the naval guard of honour to drag the gun carriage.” Accordingly, 138 bluejackets piled their arms, attached ropes to the carriage where the harnesses had been, and dragged the gun carriage to St George’s Chapel by hand, giving birth to a new royal tradition. ![]() The Royal Horse Artillery were unable to re-harness the horses and disaster loomed. The front of the procession had already marched off and reached the end of Windsor Street before it could be stopped and turned around. More complications followed when the horses, having stood motionless in the freezing weather, suddenly kicked and broke away from their traces, almost toppling the coffin to the ground. ![]() Then came the final train journey to Windsor, where the procession waited as the coffin was placed on the gun carriage. ![]()
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