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The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert. It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire , England. It was listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England in October 1975. [ 1 ]
The Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans, New Orleans, United States, are a group of forty-two cemeteries that are historically and culturally significant. These are distinct from most cemeteries commonly located in the United States in that they are an amalgam of the French, Spanish, and Caribbean historical influences on the city of New Orleans ...
The tomb of Victoria and Albert in the Frogmore Mausoleum The interment at the Frogmore Mausolem took place on 4 February. The procession from St George's Chapel was accompanied by massed military bands playing funeral marches, but in the final part of the journey, pipers played a lament , the Black Watch Dead March.
It later became the home of the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria’s mother, who is laid to rest in a mausoleum in the grounds. Frogmore House was repaired, restored and redecorated in the 1980s ...
Queen Victoria's Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore and the Royal Burial Ground (front). The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family.Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The mausoleum for the Queen's mother was being constructed at Frogmore in 1861 when Prince Albert died in December of the same year. Within a few days of his death, proposals for the mausoleum were being drawn up by the same designers involved in the Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum: Professor Gruner and A. J. Humbert. [13] Work commenced in March 1862.
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At the time, Margaret's statue was thought to be the first monument to be erected in the United States in honour of a woman. As one leading New Orleans newspaper editorial put it, “She was the most deservedly eminent, the most justly famous, of all the women of New Orleans, of our generation or of any other, in the whole history of the city.”