There are thirteen kings, four queens regnant, eleven queens consort (those married to a king) and two other queens buried in the Abbey making a total of thirty. When St Edward’s chapel was full, ...

With a history which stretches all the way back to the 10th century, Westminster Abbey has stood through the lives of important people and world-changing events. But who is buried in in the floor ...

Day before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster ... the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets’ Corner of the Abbey,* the pallbearers ...

Two Just Stop Oil protesters who spray-painted Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey have pleaded not guilty to criminal damage. The pair who defaced the historic grave insisted their ...

A silk bag housed in Westminster Abbey was made from the same material as the burial shroud of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, researchers have found. The abbey has discovered that a ...

Under the decree of the King of England, Westminster Abbey was designed to be not only a great monastery and place of worship, but also a place for the coronation and burial of monarchs. This church ...

Two pensioners have denied damaging Charles Darwin's grave in Westminster Abbey by spraying it with orange chalk paint. Alyson Lee, 66, a retired teaching assistant from Derby, and Di Bligh ...

Westminster Abbey is a collegiate church governed by ... only a week before the Confessor's death and subsequent funeral and burial. It was the site of the last coronation prior to the Norman ...

In that sense, Westminster Abbey, within walking distance of the Palace ... Both Edward VI and Mary I were buried in the abbey and so too, eventually, was Elizabeth I, but we have no evidence that ...