Why Queen Elizabeth's Funeral Doesn't Have An Open Casket
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- People from around the world are visiting Queen Elizabeth for the final time - but there's a good reason why they haven't been seeing her face.
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What are your thoughts on an open casket opposed to closed?
Personally find them to be extremely distasteful and disturbing.
British culture and the Church of England do not do open viewings.
@@soonnah9521 and your right.
As a formal embalmer, I think the Queen would have to have been touched up because of the long formal funeral. This had to be done with A. Lincoln's funeral he also had to lie in state in different stops along the train route that took him to his final resting place.
Closed better for her because of age and decomposition. Let's remember her alive*🤓
@@suzvalentino1901 I agree with you as an Embalmer myself I believe She was embalmed for long term preservation where you're looking at possibly 10 years or more. Here in Barbados & the Caribbean our culture promotes open caskets not necessarily viewing of the whole body but viewing from the head down do the waist. Gosh it must have been an honour to have been part of that team who prepared Her!
The main reason is, it's just not the done thing here in the UK, regardless of Royalty or not, no one has an open coffin, its classed as a bit distasteful.
I did not know this. In America, open caskets are a common thing.
Do you think it was open for the family in buckingham palace ?
i know the eastern and greek orthodox do I have been at enough of them. Most Christian denominations do not and it is as it should be. I consider it distasteful as well. The wakes if the person is in good enough condition to be viewed without causing shock do have accepted standard of open casket. I seem to recall a time when royalty lied in state in a glass coffin but I don't know the protocols. Likely as entire event has been completely managed her instructions are being followed.
I'm in the US where they do open coffins. They say it helps with closure but I cannot tell you how hard it is the first time you see your loved one dressed out its shocking.
Personally think its morbid. Some even take photos!!!! I'm with the UK on this one.
They have open coffins in Russia
My mother looked horrible at the time of her death due to the long process of dying. After she was embalmed and dressed in her finest she looked like her beautiful peaceful self. I am most thankful for that memory of seeing her for the last time vs. before. I believe it is a personal choice of the family and the wishes of the deceased to determine open or closed coffins and that decision needs to be respected by others. If someone doesn’t want to view the body that is a personal choice as well and they are not “required” to do so. I choose to respect the various cultural mourning traditions around the world.
Whatever your name is I didn't get to see my grandmother because I said to myself I want to remember her as what she used to be and when she raised me so what is so I think I would have gotten more with a lot of weight I want to remember her as what she was
@@patriciamartinez1284 I think that was totally appropriate for your needs.
I’m sorry for your loss and I’m glad that your situation turned out as it did. I’m glad you got to see her looking better. It’s very difficult to watch a loved one go thru a long illness, and the changes they go thru. It was shocking to see my dad with a feeding tube, and not being able to speak but I had some wonderful moments with this man while he was ill.
My father was unrecognisable In his coffin and had just come out the freezer cold to the touch plus his facial features were zombified.
@@suedesignable thank you for your reply.
I love that she and Philip are going to be entered next to each other
Interred 😊
Just remember her as a grand and beautiful woman with warmth,charm and dignity. Memories are powerful. Her smiles, her joy, her love and her just being herself. She was loved for being herself.
I'm from a Commonwealth Country in the Carribean (The Bahamas) and open casket funerals are the norm. If it is closed, it means the body was not suitable for viewing, for example an accident that resulted in the body being mutilated in some way. Open casket at our funeral allow for a final viewing and is the means of closure for most people. We embalm bodies so they are very well preserved and are dressed in their finest at their funeral.
Well said....fellow Bahamian
When my father and grandfather passed away, they had a closed casket with the top half being open/transparent/glass (I cannot remember) so that people could see them. I think this is better as people could not touch them yet is still able to see them to grief. It did help me in believing that they are no longer with us, but it takes time as there is always a time of denial when someone just passed on and to get used to the fact that they are not around anymore. (I was around 11-12 at the time of their deaths and with their deaths being less than one year apart, it took me a long time to realise that, "oh they are really gone" as I lived with both of them, it's different for everyone of course but this is just my personal experience.)
Yeah that’s true indeed. Mordern casket ⚰️ are made in this way.
I’m in America too. It does seem that more and more people here are doing closed coffin with a nice photo of the departed. We did that for my Dad. 💙
Wonderful....so you can be burying someone other than your loved one, and it has happened. Who is to say they don't have someone else in the coffin ?
We had my Uncle, who was a Detroit Police Officer go in back to make sure everything was arranged the way we wanted before they closed it.
@@boombasett6038
Typically the immediate family go into the funeral home before a wake to observe their lives one.
@@boombasett6038 Usually when the casket is closed one member or two may see their loved one but the casket stays closed for the rest of the mourners. You watch to much TV.
I thought it just Europeans
Catholics and the like.
Because we are Brits and that is not what we do here. Personally, I would not like to look at the face of someone I loved laying in a coffin. I find that creepy af!
Same here
Facts
Being British doesn't mean you don't do things that are creepy. Not In the slightest.
When your brought up that way it not creepy.
@@tannerpam634 In some ways, I think having an open coffin allows the family to more fully realize that the person is dead moreso on a emotional level (even though they already know that with their mind). I touched my father's hand when he was lying in the casket, and I really think it helped me overall, as creepy as that may seem to some here.
In Canada, if a funeral is closed casket it (usually) means that something horrific happened to the body during death that prevents them from being viewable. Like when a body has been mutilated in a murder. Closed casket funerals are extra devastating for that reason.
But I completely understand why the Queen’s had to be closed casket.
Not true…it’s a personal/family’s decision.
My mother's casket was closed. It was just a personal decsion.
I’m in Canada. I’ve been to far more funerals with open casket then closed. Almost all were open and I’ve been to a good many.
@Renee Johnson Hell no. Open viewings aren't normal here in the UK, so just because they are elsewhere in the world, doesn't mean it should be done here - especially not with our Queen. Even if it was open you'd still have fools online calling the body a double or a fake, that's just how conspiracy theorists are, considering even when she was alive people would still claim it wasn't her and that she died years ago. It's all nonsense. It doesn't need to be open to prove she's actually dead - we can simply trust the medical professionals and her family. This inherent distrust people have of everything, unless they see it with their own two eyes, isn't very healthy of a mentality.
@Renee Johnson I don't think seeing your loved one dead helps with mourning! It is a cultural thing. In the UK we just don't do open coffins. We still use coffins btw, not caskets.
I don't need or want to see the grisly sight of her inanimate face during the funeral process. She was a stunningly beautiful woman in life, her sense of fun and humour animated her face in life, and that is what I want to remember. If anyone criticises this, well you can....
I think you have a point. I am struck by the absence of personality in the postmortem photos I have seen, especially when there are pictures of the deceased there which were taken during the decedent’s life.
It's a personal choice. For me, as a Christian and Canadian, I'm used to open casket. I find it important to help with the grief process & to truly understand/accept that the person died. It is never easy though, as most I've seen don't look like themselves
The dead body is nothing just like a wax dummy. something has left the body to me that is the spirit. i can almost see the spirit leave. that's why i believe in the after life.
@@amysands8925 there is help out there for schizophrenia
@@amysands8925 :yes the ruh or soul left the physical body. Read Al Quran you will get more information about life,death and hereafter.
I have been to open and closed. The last open one should have been closed. The daughter was following her father’s wishes . It is not the last sight of him you want to remember. This has happened to me twice now.
@@othmanahmad7331 Not quran the Bible
I totally agree on closed casket…the person does not look the same after death it’s best to remember them like they were before they passed away!
Agreed!!!!!!🤍
We went to the funeral of a family friend, and he looked better than he ever looked while he was still alive (to be honest). The funeral home did a great job.
Amen.🙏
@@Sheryl777 lol
@@gsf5882 lol...it was true though 😃He never looked as good when he was alive haha.
My aunt who died from cancer requested a closed casket. Her kids honored her request but the funeral directors didnt. The limousine was late picking up my cousins. When they finally arrived people wss already at the church and there was her moms...my aunts casket wide open. People was just staring..My cousin snapped and closed the casket. All the directors could say was,Im so sorry.
I’m used to open caskets unless the person died in a horrific manner. I think someone said this already but it helps me solidify that my loved one has passed beyond Earth. It’s an odd feeling, touching the hard and so so cold body. But it’s reality and I felt that I need that to move on.
But everyone has what they are used to, both ways can be respected.
Yes - it was not Peaceful they took her quick.
Why do we have to die, why can't we just live without dying?
Agree. Culture makes a difference too.. my family's culture is descended from tribal society so we don't mind making that earthen connection.
It’s the Queen. Even if it’s customary to have open caskets in England, I would still wish it to be a coffin. No need for people to comment on how her corpse looked. You just know there would be unsavory attacks like that. She spent her whole life serving the peoples and that’s enough. Her dignity must be protected while she laid to rest.
@@gpal4843 Maybe knowing we will die inspires us to make the most of our days. Otherwise many of us would just sit around watching TV, saying someday I'll do....and never do it, missing out on great experiences.
Such a lovely lady who dedicated her whole life to the service of us Brits. She met so many people and had a profound effect on most of them. She had probably had enough of her terribly behaved children, tantrum-throwing grandson and his money hungry bullying wife, not to mention the fact that she couldn’t afford the gas and electric bills with their HUGE increase. It’s obviously better to leave this life and rest in peace back with her devoted husband, mum, dad and sister. The Queen will be massively missed.
when my brothers and I saw our dad after he was embalmed etc, we did not even recognize him. I would have preferred a closed coffin. and after our daughter was killed in a car wreck, her body was prepped in another state and sent here with a note saying tell the family not to open the coffin. so we did not, preferring to remember her as we'd seen her a few days before.
It is not usual to have an open casket at any funeral in the UK.
Depends what community you belong to, i have been to many homes in London with open casket.
It's usual in Northern Ireland to have an open coffin at the home of the deceased which is closed just before removal to the church. All communities do the same, unless the body is disfigured and not fit to be viewed.
It's not common in England, which may be because of the longer time there between death and the funeral. In Ireland the funeral is usually within two days of death.
In Ireland it is more common with funerals often conducted in the family home.
Get your facts right, the Queens funeral will be at Westminster Abbey. She will have a private interrment at Windsor Castle in the Royal vault, Prince Phillip will be removed from his current vault afterwards and placed beside the Queen.
I hope they are together after. POUR L'ÉTERNITÉ .
Prince Philip is currently in the Royal vault and he will be moved to King George VI memorial chapel where he will rest with the Queen and her parents and sister.
I think I heard also with her mum and dad and Margaret that got cremated so there would be room for her ..
when i die, i dont want any one looking at me, closed casket with a lovely photo of me when i was happy and living, my big brother and little sister died young i just wish i never saw them dead, still upsets to this day.
I was with my mum when she died. About half an hour later, they asked me to check how they had laid her out. (She was in a nursing home.). The body didn't look like mum any more. It was then i understood that our spirit is what makes us who were are, and when that has gone, the body is just like a worn out coat. Something they don't need anymore. It's all that's left, when the spirit has gone on. I hope this helps you.
@@thatswhatisaid8908 very true, yes the spirit is gone, lovely way to put it, thank you.
You will have no control over what anyone does to your body after you're dead anyway.
It is best to remember her as she was in life, and not in death. This should be for everyone.
You are totally unqualified and unwelcome to decide what is right "for everyone". You do what is right for you, others will do what is right for us. #teamopencasket
i've never seen an open casket in australia. it sounds a bit morbid. I can't imagine why you might want an open casket ever.
I've only ever seen open casket funerals in Australia 😐
Princess Margret was the Queens sister. The Queen Mother’s name is Elizabeth. Very important distinction.
I believe she was listing them just very quickly. The Queen Mother, Princess Margaret are both buried there
While the issue with the Queen has specific elements such as being above ground, lead lining and such, it is also Anglican (and Episcopal, the American church) tradition to have closed casket funerals. In fact the first rubric (rule) in the Book of Common Prayer, our book of public worship services, that the casket is closed BEFORE it enters the church. In the United States, most Episcopalians are cremated, we do not have "viewings" or other opportunities to display the body. We consider that gruesome, and emotionally manipulative. Also, we prefer to remember the person as they were when alive, not a painted corpse. So this tradition goes beyond the Queen.
Wow 😲....
I don't think that's an Episcopalian thing. It's a personal choice.
My old music teacher was Episcopalian and she had a viewing in the church PRIOR to her funeral mass
i do not agree with ur Explanations
When I lived in Israel they told me they did not do cremations due to the belief that we should not destroy what God has created, and the more natural burial of ashes to ashes dust to dust is the norm, which is probably better for the environment too. A funeral can take place within a day or so as the bodies are traditionally wrapped in a burial shroud with no preservation chemicals.
There are also no people throwing people's remains (ashes) in public areas as happens here.
Open casket also helps to give evidence if the person has really passed away and buried and to say final goodbye
Yes but then the last sight of them dead would always be in your mind. I prefer the last sight of them alive.
A great photo exists of Abraham Lincoln in his coffin. From a historical perspective, I am glad it exists.
What ever her funeral brings it will be emotion for her family and the nation it be a hard day for everyone.✌✌✌✌✌😢😢😢😢🥺🥺🥺🥺
A New Era begun - Celebration for All.
An open casket would have brought out people that have no respect for her in life .. and the horrific things people say ..no it would not have been a dignified thing to do .. in my opinion ..
Here in the USA 🇺🇸 we have open caskets so we can see the person one more time and say our good byes
My paps was open casket
I’m here … but I’m making sure my casket is closed.. it’s so distasteful!!! I don’t like to see a dead person, nor do I want anyone to see me!!!
@@liliancbrandt ok well for me no one is going to me ever again till I go to heaven so they need to get their last goodbye until they meet me again
@@liliancbrandt me too
And it's sick.
Very nicely put together video and very entertaining as well. Thanks for posting this.
I cant forget the cute smile of the Queen Elizbath ll 😥🌹😥
I prefer open casket it’s better for reconciliation. We alway had ours within three days after death.
In Ireland its always opened, and they have a big wake, 3 days.
Truthfully, I wouldn't want to see Queen Elizabeth buried in her coffin. I prefer to remember her life the way she looked normal everyday. It is horrible to see somebody in a coffin which is why I don't like funerals if they're going to have open coffins.
May her soul rest in peace 💔
No peace there
Most church funerals are closed casket because priests and pastors want the focus to be on the hope of resurrection, not what they call body worship. Unfortunately, there are some cases that should be closed casket, but are not.
There will never2 be a queen like queen elizabeth so very beautiful her smile so attractive lady her dressing so stylish.no one in the world♥️♥️♥️♥️
I want to remember her as she was.
When my mother died 2 months ago, we let the other family and friends that were not of the first bloodline, say their goodbyes to her in a partially open coffin during a walk-by, just to make sure that they could personally say goodbye. After that we closed the coffin during a private moment and the invitees could come back in the room for the other part of the ceremony
Condolences to the family. All looking well dressed. The queen funeral is open to public to come and give the last respect compare to the husband. They have to prepare all this in short period of time. Respect. Little ❤️ from Malaysia
An old Era ended a New Era has Started - and so it is - Blessings.
Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth
I was at a funeral for someone who died over a month ago back in August, and I signed up to be one of his pallbearers, and well, on the day of the funeral, before we buried him, I saw his dead body for one last and final time, and then me being one of his pallbearers, we ended up, taking his dead body to his grave, where we buried him. And well, I think it’s a personal choice, of family members, who all decide, to have his casket opened or closed, and it was opened at first, then it’s closed up afterwards. It goes both ways for any family, whether or not if the deceased person was royalty or not.
God Bless our Queen. She did what God purposed her for. Royally***💜
I'm not British, but we love the Queen.
LIVE FOREVER MY OUR BELOVED [{QUEEN 👑}] MISS HER TOO MUCH WHENEVER I SAW HER INNOCENT FACE I WISH SHE HAD MORE TIME I WISH .
That is not done in Britain. Personally I think there should never be open caskets.
I agree.
Actually, it was Operation Unicorn because Her Majesty died in Scotland.
The Scotland part was Operation Unicorn yes, but the England part is still Operation London Bridge.
Hello there
UK funerals don't have open coffins. It's considered a bit weird over here.
I am from Chicago, and I totally agree.
Well, HM’s casket has been out in the open for a week. Surely no one wants to see her now. Respect and love from Austin Texas 🇨🇱❤️🇬🇧
RIP Queen Elizabeth l l, God save the King
When there is an elaborate funeral with a closed coffin, I believe the coffin is empty. The body is resting in a cooler while the casket goes on tour. Funerals are all smoke and mirrors. There is no good reason for transporting the body all around the country for 10 days if the coffin is never opened for public display.
In Italy we have closed coffin funerals and we do not embalm corpses. If you want to see the decreased you go at the chamber were the deceased lays before the funeral, before they seal the coffin.
Same in the UK
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Maybe it's traditional but I truly believe that her own family should have had a personal viewing before the casket was closed. It helps with the finality.
They probably did. That is what we do in Britain.
Up to them.
We DON'T do that here, as part of my job, I attend a lot of funerals and not one of them has been open.
It's not a British thing from the lowest to the highest and we have coffins, not caskets.
What’s the difference between a coffin and a casket?
@Elaine S. yeah, I was taught to use the word casket. The word, Coffin reminds me of a Halloween prop for Dracula. I am not saying everyone says casket, but mostly here in USA, it is the professional term--but sure, you can use the word Coffin here too.
The whole purpose of a lead casket is that it can be hermetically sealed by being soldered shut. Royalty are often buried within churches or under the floor of them. It is essential to keep the aroma from reaching the church. The sealed leaden casket will never rust or corrode.
I don't know about smells ,but Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester was killed in The Wars of the Roses in St Albans and his body (when finally the coffin was opened in the 10th century) was found to have been pickled in wine.
@@joseeallyn9950 Cool! I would LOVE to be pickled in wine!
@@collinsje5 Rather horribly people were drinking it when the coffin was finally opened. I read thisyears ago in the guide book of St Alban's Abbey in Hertfordshire.
@@joseeallyn9950 OMG.....
I prefer open casket as it gives more closure. But I know that open casket funerals are not common in the UK. My dad was cremated quickly before I could see him, I didn’t feel that I had closure.
The Queen is not in the casket in waiting...she is peacefully laid to rest at home...in the warm...surrounded by her family...until her burial...
I’m glad they didn’t do open coffin viewing. I still have nightmares from my seeing my little sister in spirit laid out. I’m Jewish so we generally don’t embalm or do open casket. We did a private viewing for family members who had to travel and didn’t arrive in time to see my grandmother before she passed
It's barbaric. People don't need
Added stress at a time like that.
In the Philippines it’s usually open but there’s a glass top, so not open where you can touch them but open enough to see them.
I feel like after 70 years 10 days just wernt enough I've learned more about the queen in the last week. Than ive learned in 34 years what a woman. Don't matter what you think of the royals. That lady's done more. Than we could ever dream of. Was still working 2 days before she died. Poor woman. She gave up her life. For the monarchy maybe if she didn't work so hard. She would of lived longer. Long live the queen 👑👑👑
closed casket is the best esp if the deceased were sick before they died or older
It's a coffin not a casket and it's closed because that's what we do here and reading the comments, so do most other countries, seems like the USA is in the minority when it comes to this grisly custom
At 0:27 you say that funeral will be held at St George's Chapel at Windsor: WRONG!!!
Get your facts right. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's funeral will be held at Westminster Abbey in London.
Then, there will be a committal service at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, but that is after the funeral, where Her Majesty will be reunited with her husband Prince Philip.
God save the King!
Rip!
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God Bless Them all 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Rest Well
Just some information. A Casket is a box. It can be small or big. Some are used for jewelry, tea, important papers etc. Some are used to hold dead bodies. It is shaped, somewhat like a body. For some reason they are not popular in the USA. At one time when someone died a person set about building a coffin to fit the person who died. It seemed good to have a practical thing to do at the time of loss. Most of those traditions are gone and most people wouldn't be able to build a coffin that met cemetery and government standards. I have seen a hand full of dead people, shortly after they died, when they died or days later. I have also seen a more than a dozen of professionally prepared bodies. The thing to remember is that my opinions do not matter unless I am the one planning the funeral. The people in charge should do what is best for the next of kin etc. It all about their need to honor and grieve their loved one in a way that is most meaningful to them.
It is very very rare to have an open casket here in United Kingdom
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I love the Queen she was never horrible I never mean,
she was a wonderful head of state,
with all the worlds problems on her plate, like politicians destroying her country, upholding traditions and all their superstitions, she was assiduous to her duties, carried out with grace and beauty, she Devoted her life to the service of this country,
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Because she's been in there for 10 days!
We tend to do open caskets in the US, but the deceased person does not look good regardless of the makeup. I am glad Her Majesty is having a closed casket.
It's a coffin and it's just NOT a thing in Britain. I've been to loads of funerals as part of my job, not one of them was open. We'd find it strange and shocking.
Closure for My Family & Myself to view Our loved Ones. ❤🌷broken 💔.
I believe this report is wrong about the queen and Prince Phillip's final resting place being the royal vault. Prince Phillip has been in the vault since April 2021, but now that the queen has passed and when the funeral is over, they both will be transferred to the St. George chapel where they will be laid to rest together in the chapel.
Ur correct
She was 96. How good would she look. It’s good they are protecting her body.
There are many religious traditions - including my own - that eschew open casket funerals (and cosmetic embalming) because making the remains of a deceased person look "lifelike" is considered a denial of the reality of death. That perspective warrants as much respect as other faith traditions that consider viewing the remains of a deceased person as an integral part of that final farewell.
However it's done, mourning is a part of the universal human experience. It's wonderful that thousands of people from all walks of life had the opportunity to pay their last respects to Queen Elizabeth II. May her memory be for blessing. 🕯
I prefer not to see the dead, we have to respect their privacy !
Why would It be open! She has traveled from here and there, NOT refrigeratored, it isn't as if she would be pleasing to view.
I wonder if her body is actually inside?! Traveling places by car and plane, being carried here and there, standing on display for so many days without “refrigerator” (if there’s none inside)…
Shes been embalmed so shes preserved for a while in a sealed coffin a very thick coffin too.
Never in my life have I heard someone describe something as refrigeratored and I hope I never will again.
She is in a lead lined coffin, the lead stops the smells and waste from leaking out.
I'm sure she's embalmed so she would not decompose quickly since she would be on display for over a week.
Je préfère me rappeler le visage de la Reine vivante plutôt qu’un visage figé dans la mort. Car ce sont les dernières images qu’on garde en mémoire !
Oui!
Delayed Decomposition hardly matters if casket is closed.
The queen's mother was called Elizabeth Margaret was the queen's sister its not the done thing in UK to have an open coffin funeral parlours over here are usually small you will find relatives might go for a private viewing but usually not at the same time as they are small rooms
I will say this it's sad that the Queen and her Prince could not be buried in Scotland as they loved ❤️ it so much they could have a freedom where they could be just themselves just a thought ❤️ 💜 💙
In Queen's case. Too many days have elapsed. So, best is to keep it closed. Least dey could do, is have a glass cover only for her face to be viewed
Personally I would rather people remember me when I was alive. Rather than the last image being dead on view in a coffin.
She was in a wood coffin that was inside a lead coffin that was in an outer oak coffin. Lead is used to preserve the body.
Not that anyone would want to view the body at a later date.
Close 😢
It's not open because she's not in there it's as simple as that.
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Caskets are rectangular. That's a coffin.
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Private I'm sure family viewed her .no one should be on Display with open casket Tacky not Good .Rip 👑🇬🇧
It is not usual in the UK to have an open casket - regardless of being Royalty or not.
Royals never do that, casket is always draped with their standard.
Princess Grace had a open casket and she looked beautiful
British PEOPLE never do that. We have closed coffins.... always.
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I cannot think of anything more tasteless or morbid than an open coffin.
This is the UK! There are no open casket funerals in Church of England and we do not call them caskets - they are coffins. Its not in our culture to have open coffins.
so the coffin apparently is specially built to prevent deterioration of the body?
I think best to try remember how she was. I doubt queen wants world to see her open coffin, she needs some privacy and something for herself after passing. But of course I can understand why some would like to see open coffin.
Well obviously it's because she's not really dead and just performed a soul transfer.
Why would you want to??
And, her funeral will be held in Westminster Abbey, not in the chapel.
nope, funeral is the final rite and thus done in Windsor.
Looking at the dead is ghoulish, sick.