Queen's uniquely adapted coffin is lead-lined and so heavy it needs extra pallbearers TheQueen
Eagle-eyed viewers of yesterdays procession of the late Queen's coffin as it was transported from Holyroodhouse to St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh may have noticed that it required eight pallbearers, rather than the usual six.
The reason that the 'coffin within a coffin' needs to be lead-lined is due to the fact that the Queen will be interred, rather than buried, in the King George VI Memorial Vault, where the remains of her father father, King George's VI, the Queen Mother and her sister Princess Margaret are resting. In a unique modification the Queen's coffin all features brass clasps and handles which hold the Imperial State Crown, orb and sceptre in place when they are placed atop the coffin for the lying-in-state of the monarch, when members of the public can come to pay their respects.
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