• Details The Duke of Edinburgh personally designed the Land Rover that will carry his coffin

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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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