Elizabeth's funeral cortège, 1603, with banners of her royal ancestors

They discovered a royal burial, its timbers recently dated as cut to about 740 BC complete with remains of the funeral feast and " the best collection of Iron Age drinking vessels ever uncovered ".

By the Middle Kingdom period, as the funeral texts began to be used by members of Egyptian society other than the royal family, the role of Isis as protector also grew, to include the protection of nobles and even commoners.

His funeral was celebrated in the church of San Marco with almost royal pomp.

Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.

Afterwards he sent Darius ’ s body back to Persepolis, gave him a magnificent funeral and ordered that he be buried, like all his royal predecessors, in the royal tombs.

Although the two were on friendly terms, Alexandra could be stubborn ; she demanded precedence over Mary at the funeral of Edward VII, was slow in leaving Buckingham Palace, and kept some of the royal jewels that should have been passed to the new queen.

The royal family was grief-stricken and Louis XVIII broke an ancient tradition to attend his nephew's funeral, as previous Kings of France could not have any association with death.

At her son's funeral she was given precedence over all the other women of the royal family.

At the death of each of the kings of Abomey, his palace became a funeral temple for the worship of the departed royal ancestor.

His funeral mass was in the Cathedral of Santa Eulalia, on 22 April 2010 and was attended by representatives of the Spanish royal family and of the Olympic movement.

Each province was to be represented by its arms at the royal funeral.

In August 2012, the funeral of Countess Alix de Lannoy, mother of Stéphanie de Lannoy, was held in Frasnes, attended by members of the Luxembourg and Belgian royal families.

In 1393, Parisians were treated to the unusual spectacle of a royal funeral carried out in white, for Leo V, King of Armenia, who died in exile.

When the royal train visited after the public funeral for Diana, it travelled instead to Long Buckby railway station.

In the near compound's eastern gate stands the royal funerary carriage house, where it houses the funeral carriage, which stands 12 metres high and there are various urns for the members of the royal family.

By this time, they were sufficiently famous that the presentation was noted in the London newspapers. Maria, who was notoriously tactless, was reported to have made a notable gaffe by telling the elderly George II that the spectacle she would most like to see was a royal funeral.

A sermon pronounced before Philip III at Salamanca in 1605 brought Paravicino into notice ; he rose to high posts in his order, was entrusted with important foreign missions, became royal preacher in 1616, and on the death of Philip III in 1621 delivered a famous funeral oration which was the subject of acute controversy.

At the royal funeral crowds chanted: “ You will answer for the blood of Ghazi, Nuri .” He supported the accession of ' Abd al-Ilah as regent for Ghazi ’ s successor, Faisal II, who was still a minor.

Mashal attended Arafat's funeral, alongside the Saudi royal family, in Cairo on 12 November 2004.

This procession of chivalry was an integral part of the heraldic royal funeral.

One of the most solemn role for the heralds during a royal funeral is the reading of the full list of the styles and titles of the deceased.

After the funeral, Charles and Tom have a discussion about whether hoping to find your " one true love " is just a futile effort, and ponder that, while their clique have always viewed themselves as proud-to-be-single, Gareth and Matthew had in fact been a " married " couple among them all the while.

Frances Ann Ulmer was born in Madison, Wisconsin and grew up in Horicon, Wisconsin to a couple who owned the only funeral home in the area.

* Mr. and Mrs. Sowerberry, the insensitive couple who take in Oliver and use him in their funeral business.

The new Imperial couple had Flavian's remains brought to Constantinople in a way that, in the words of a chronicler, more resembled " a triumph .. than a funeral procession ".

Later, Boss Man invaded the funeral and used a chain to couple the coffin to the hearse, towing the coffin away with a grief-stricken Big Show clinging on to it.

After a Roman Catholic mass at St. Mary's Basilica, the presidential couple were laid to rest in a sarcophagus, which was placed in the antechamber of the Crypt Under the Tower of Silver Bells beneath the Wawel Cathedral, A significant number of foreign dignitaries were unable to attend the funeral as a result of air travel disruption in Europe following the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland.

It comprises a narrow corridor and a round burial chamber, both decorated with murals representing a Thracian couple at a ritual funeral feast.

The first episode showed the couple meeting at a funeral, marrying, and going through the honeymoon phase.

Her humanitarian credentials are revealed when she allows Mrs Overall a couple of hours off to attend her husband's funeral, provided she pops back at five for the hoovering.

After Alender's funeral concert a couple of days later, the remaining members of the band decided never to perform under the name of " Ruja " again.

Mickie sat over his second whisky-on-the-rocks in a little bar next to the funeral parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue.

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

The coffin stood on trestles in a corner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had ordered.

The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.

In " The Big Four " ( 1927 ) Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral in order to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

Achilles and Ajax play a board game with knucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites

The most distinguished funeral honors were paid to his remains, which were deposited in the temple at Possagno on 25 October 1822.

The Times reported on 6 November 1995 that Prince Charles had stated on that day to Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, after the funeral of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, that " Catholics should be able to ascend to the British throne ".

Scyld ’ s funeral helps the poet to elaborate on the glory of battle in a heroic society and how earthly possessions help define a person ‘ s importance.

* Youths riding around on horses at the funeral of a great man-Anchises and Pallas in the Aeneid and Beowulf in Beowulf.

The loss devastated Montgomery, but he insisted on throwing himself back into his work immediately after the funeral.

Holly's funeral was held on February 7, 1959, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.

During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

Mumy read the eulogy at Harris ' funeral and was asked to narrate his longtime friend's life on A & E Biography that same year.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

Claudius ' ashes were interred in the Mausoleum of Augustus on 24 October, after a funeral in the manner of Augustus.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.