An opening was then made in the lid and the covering removed from the head.
The pall was removed to reveal a plain lead coffin inscribed with the name of King Charles and the year of his death. The Prince Regent entered the vault accompanied by the Duke of Cumberland, Count Munster, the Dean of Windsor, Benjamin Charles Stevenson, and Sir Henry Halford. This took place on 1 April 1813, the day after the funeral of the Duchess of Brunswick. The Prince Regent was told of the discovery and he sanctioned an examination of the coffin. This was in accordance with Herbert’s description and so it was presumed to hold the remains of King Charles I. A third coffin could also be seen, covered with a black velvet pall. Workmen accidentally made an opening in one of the walls of the vault where Henry VIII and Jane Seymour were said to be buried. When George III built a mausoleum at Windsor, a passage was built under St George’s Chapel. There was a suggestion that King Charles II had re-interred his father at Westminster Abbey. Lord Clarendon stated that some years later the King’s body could not be found at Windsor.
Mr Herbert who had been a groom of the royal bedchamber was entrusted with overseeing the interment.įrom The Famous Tragedie of King Charles I (London, 1709) British Library flickr Parliament then gave permission for the King to be buried in the Chapel of St George at Windsor. His embalmed body was put into a coffin and taken to St James’s. King Charles I was beheaded on 30 January 1649 outside Banqueting House in Whitehall.
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