The King had been so closely identified with London, and so popular in the country at large, that the Archbishop of Canterbury had initially proposed burial in Westminster Abbey. A less daring suggestion was the royal mausoleum at Frogmore, where Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were interred. Neither venue appealed to George V, who expressed a preference for St George’s Chapel at Windsor. There, his father would be laid to rest among his Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart and Hanoverian forebears.
