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Last Saturday the British royal family said goodbye to the Duke of Edinburgh with a
funeral
at St George's Chapel, which began with a
procession
through the grounds of Windsor Castle in which the sons and grandsons of the deceased walked behind the modified Land Rover. for the occasion he was
carrying his coffin.
The coffin was
covered with the banner
of the British consort's standard, on which
his sword and naval cap
were placed
,
and it has now come to light that its manufacture was carried out by
the Henry Smith company,
one of the most reputable in the world. a sector
that closed in 2005
when the last member of the family retired from the business.
It is "a
lead-lined English oak
casket
made for him more than 30 years ago along with a matching casket for the queen," revealed the British newspaper
Express.
It is the same company that was commissioned in its day to build the coffin of celebrities such as singer
Freddie Mercury,
who died in 1991, but no one at the royal funeral home Leverton & Sons (the current royal gravediggers) is clear
when exactly
the of the British consort because they received him along with
another for the sovereign
of his predecessors in office, JH Kenyon, in 1991.
Company director Andrew Leverton told The Times that the English oak from which the casket is now made was "very hard to come by" because most oak coffins are made from American wood.
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