A small gilt bronze statuette (or weeper) of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, can be seen on the tomb of his father Edward III in Westminster Abbey. His enamelled shield is shown below. Originally there were ...

Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. The service always includes one or ...

This great Victorian philanthropist was born in Piccadilly, London on 21st April 1814, the youngest of six children of Sir Francis Burdett (1770-1844), politician, who was educated at Westminster ...

William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Mary, Queen of Scots was reburied in Westminster Abbey in 1612. Who is Mary, Queen of Scots? Mary, Queen of Scots was born in 1542, daughter of King James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise. Her father ...

Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon was born on 4th August 1900 in London, a daughter of Lord and Lady Glamis, who later became the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She was educated at home and ...

In the chapel of St Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey is a small tomb with a black marble slab for Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VII and his queen Elizabeth of York. It now stands near Henry ...

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, died on 6th October 1892 at his home in Haslemere, Surrey. On 11th October the coffin was brought to Westminster Abbey and lay overnight in St Faith's chapel ...

In Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey is a monument of alabaster and black marble to poet Michael Drayton (or Draiton). The monument is by sculptor Edward Marshall and was erected by the Countess of ...

A new building – to be named The King Charles III Sacristy in honour of HM The King – will be constructed to house state-of-the-art welcome, security and ticketing facilities, allowing the Abbey ...

On 19th October 1926 Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), unveiled a memorial in Westminster Abbey to the Million Dead of the First World War. It was presented to the Abbey by the Imperial War ...