Westminster Abbey has also been a frequent venue for royal funerals and burials. Since the early 19th century, almost all British sovereigns have been buried at Windsor Castle, including Elizabeth II.

The project was so important that Edward and his new royal abbey were featured in the famous, 70 meter-long Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the Norman conquest of England in 1066 after Edward’s death.

Edith had her own coronation as consort. Burial and Shrine He died sometime on the night of 4-5th January 1066. The burial procession from Westminster Hall to the Abbey, where prayers were said all ...

The original tapestry (top left) ends with the Anglo-Saxons fleeing the battlefield but the new ending features William's coronation in Westminster Abbey The Bayeux Tapestry is arguably the most ...

Westminster Abbey first became our coronation church almost by accident nearly 1,000 years ago. The last Anglo-Saxon king of the English, Edward the Confessor, had a particular fondness for ...

Work to Westminster Abbey was under way by 1051 and the new church was consecrated on December 28, 1065, only eight days before its royal patron died. The celebrated 11th-century narrative embroidery ...

An earlier British effort to borrow the Tapestry, in 1966, also sparked competing bids to host the display from the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and Westminster Abbey.

Thus, the use of the Abraham tapestries at Westminster Abbey for the coronation of James II seems to have been based on historical precedent. The selection of The Circumcision of Isaac to flank ...

A 70-metre long tale of broken oaths, revenge and bloodshed is set to be displayed in the UK. No, it's not the latest Eastenders script but the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered story of the Norman ...

Lincoln Cathedral is happy to stand in, for $180,000. 2010: Benedict XVI becomes the first Pope to set foot within the Abbey. 2011 (29 April): Wills and Kate tie the knot in Westminster Abbey.