Burial places of British royalty
These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles, as well as members of their royal families.
Monarchs of England (to 1603)
Pre-conquest
Post-conquest
Monarchs of Scotland (to 1603)
Native princes of Wales (to 1283)
Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
Owain Gwynedd | 1170 | Bangor Cathedral | |
Dafydd ab Owain Gwynedd | 1203 | England? | |
The Lord Rhys | 1197 | St. David's Cathedral | - |
Llywelyn ab Iorwerth | 1240 | body interred at Aberconwy Abbey; later removed to Maenan Abbey; sarcophagus now found at parish church of Llanrwst | |
Dafydd ap Llywelyn | 1246 | body interred at Aberconwy Abbey; current whereabouts unknown | |
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd | 1282 | Cwmhir Abbey | |
Dafydd ap Gruffudd | 1283 | Hanged, drawn and quartered at Shrewsbury |
Monarchs since 1603
; of Great Britain ; of United Kingdom )Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
James VI and I | 1625 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey | |
Charles I | 1649 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
Oliver Cromwell | 1658 | Tyburn, London. Moved from Westminster Abbey in 1660 and dumped in a pit after posthumous execution. | - |
Richard Cromwell | 1712 | All Saints Church, Hursley, Hampshire |
Name | Death | Place of burial | Image |
Charles II | 1685 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey | - |
James II and VII | 1701 | Chapel of St Edmund, Church of the English Benedictines, Rue St. Jacques, Paris | |
Mary II | 1694 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey | |
William III and II | 1702 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey | |
Anne | 1714 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey | |
George I | 1727 | Chapel of Leine Castle in Hanover, Germany; moved from the crypt to the at Herrenhausen on 5 December 1957. He was the last British monarch buried outside of the British Isles. | |
George II | 1760 | Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey | |
George III | 1820 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | |
George IV | 1830 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | |
William IV | 1837 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | |
Victoria | 1901 | Frogmore, Windsor | |
Edward VII | 1910 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | |
George V | 1936 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle | |
Edward VIII | 1972 | Royal burial ground at Frogmore, Windsor | |
George VI | 1952 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle |
Jacobite pretenders
Other Royal burials (by place)
Name | Cemetery image | Person interred | Grave image |
Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, Frogmore | Princess Victoria, Duchess of Kent | - | |
Royal Mausoleum, Frogmore | Prince Albert | - | |
St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle | - | ||
Royal burial ground, Frogmore | - | ||
St Ninian's Chapel, Braemar | - | ||
Althorp | Diana, Princess of Wales | - | |
Westminster Abbey | - | ||
Peterborough Cathedral | Catherine of Aragon | - | |
St Peter ad Vincula, Tower of London | - | ||
Sudeley Castle | Catherine Parr | - | |
St Mildred's Church, Whippingham, Isle of Wight | Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg | - | |
St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham, Norfolk | Prince John | - | |
Vadstena Abbey, Sweden | Queen Philippa of Denmark, Norway and Sweden | ||
The Royal Cemetery, Solna, Sweden | Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden | ||
Ypres Town Cemetery and Extension, Ypres, Belgium. | Prince Maurice of Battenberg | ||
Brunswick Cathedral, Braunschweig, Germany. | Caroline of Brunswick | - | |
Convent of the Visitations, Chaillot, near Paris | Mary of Modena | - | |
Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon, Portugal | Catherine of Braganza | - | |
Basilica of St Denis, Paris, France | Francis II of France Henrietta Maria of France | - | |
El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain | Philip II of Spain | - | |
Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley | - | |
Church of St John, Mirow, Germany | Princess Augusta of Cambridge | - |