Dean of Windsor remembers 'calm and dignified' Queen Elizabeth

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The Dean of Windsor remembered the “calm and dignified presence” of Queen Elizabeth at her committal service on Monday (19. 09.

22) afternoon. The monarch’s funeral took place at Westminster Abbey earlier in the day, before her coffin was transported to her Windsor Estate, her final resting place, and at the second service at St.

George’s Chapel, the dean reflected on how the 96-year-old queen’s “long life” had been a “blessing” to so many. He said: “We have come together to commit into the hands of God the soul of his servant Queen Elizabeth. “Here, in St George’s Chapel, where she so often worshipped, we are bound to call to mind someone whose uncomplicated yet profound Christian Faith bore so much fruit.

Fruit, in a life of unstinting service to the Nation, the Commonwealth and the wider world, but also - and especially to be remembered in this place - in kindness, concern and reassuring care for her family and friends and neighbours. “In the midst of our rapidly changing and frequently troubled world, her calm and dignified presence has given us confidence to face the future, as she did, with courage and with hope. “As, with grateful hearts, we reflect on these and all the many other ways in which her long life has been a blessing to us, we pray that God will give us grace to honour her memory by following her example, and that, with our sister Elizabeth, at the last, we shall know the joys of life eternal. ” Ahead of his address, the choir sang as the queen’s coffin came through the West Door and was moved to the Quire.