Has the Queen been embalmed already?

Embalming is ghoulish and gross. I really don't get it, except when you have to put people on show.

Oh honey, R1.

This is the biggest "show" of the year.

She has to be embalmed.

Her fluids have been drained, and she's stiff as a board.

Which works out quite well, since her body will be traveling all around the UK for the next week and a half.

It's hard to believe that she's gone.

I'm seeing photos of her all over the internet, and she still seems... alive.

These are the people who would know. Levertons are the current funeral directors to the Royal Family. They have handled all the major Royal funerals since Diana.

Isn't Lenin preserved for eternity in glass coffin in Moscow?

Just gross.

Yes, R5.

R5 I heard that after a few years his embalmed corpse turned green and they had to replace it with a wax one.

I believe it, R7.

The interesting one is reading about the the Anti-Rainbow Tour Evita's corpse ended up undertaking after her death.

The Queen lying in state won’t be open coffin, the royals are never on display that way, so there’s not much reason to embalm. She’s going to be sealed in a lead-lined coffin pretty quickly.

It's 10 days, motherfuckers!

She'll be fine.

Read the "Operation London Bridge" thread.

It's all planned out.

[quote] since her body will be traveling all around the UK

No, it will lie 'in state' in a closed coffin.

Why lead-lined, R10? To survive a nuclear attack? She's already dead.

Seriously, why lead-lined?

[quote] No, it will lie 'in state' in a closed coffin.

Still, her corpse will be transported around the UK to lie in state in various venues.

No, R14, she died in Balmoral. The hearse will take the coffin from Balmoral to the Edinburgh station where it will travel by train to the national capital where it will lie in state for a designated time until burial.

R13 for some reason royals have been buried in lead-lined coffins for hundreds of years. I think since the Middle Ages, probably a status thing, and to protect the corpse.

I suspect she is lying in state for the family and Balmoral staff. Will her body move to London tomorrow escorted by Charles?

If you are interested in the lead lined coffins, check out the PBS show about iron coffins

Her body will be moved to London by royal train then taken to Buckingham Palace.

The Royal Train.

[quote]Her fluids have been drained, and she's stiff as a board.

Actually, no. Rigor mortis is temporary Embalming doesn't cause the body to go rigid.

Probably refrigerated overnight, then embalmed tomorrow. Otherwise she’ll start to stink.

She's hanging over my fireplace.

She'll be moved to Edinburgh first to lie in state and then onto London. Her dead body is going on a bigger tour than Rocio Durcal's last tour of Mexico.

If it’s closed casket, they probably ship around a dummy coffin full of phonebooks.

Maybe her body will be like Evita’s, perfectly preserved, shuttled around the world and lost for decades.

Will she be buried on a tiny island in the middle of a stinking swamp, like Diana was?

I didn't realize Henry VIII is also buried at Windsor. Will it be possible to visit the Queen's grave? Any excuse to wear my kilt.

R27 Well that’s still better than being buried beneath a car park.

Has she been drained yet?

Or on a back nine, R29.

Yes, smoking is now severely restricted around her.

Will a WAKE or a WOKE be held for her tonight?

It's being held inside your asshole.

Was she an organ donor?

William the Conqueror was initially allowed to rot when he died in France, and was only embalmed improperly a few days later. When he was brought back to Caen, the body burst open when they tried to bury it in the Abbaye-aux-Hommes, releasing a foul odor that filled the abbey..

OMG R36... is there a link to that story???

I want to read more about it.

Gross!

This thought crossed my mind last night too… where and when will they do it? It must be done at Balmoral surely before she is moved to Edinburgh.

She looked so cute, smiling at Liz Truss just a couple days ago.

Oh well. Lady C said she had bone cancer.

For R37

[Quote]She looked so cute, smiling at Liz Truss just a couple days ago.

I'm telling you. Vicodin and a morphine drip 3 times a day bring out the best in all of us.

They should seal her up in a giant Advil pain relief capsule like the one in which Queen Margrethe II of Denmark will be put to rest:

Have they secreted the Queens body away somewhere for the embalming procedure? Seriously, they can't do it on the sofa at Balmoral.

She’s secreting as we speak, R43.

I’m just glad the last picture of her showed that she had returned to the wash & set hairstyle she’d been wearing all these years and not the “new” hairstyle they unveiled after the Platinum Jubilee. That one did her no favors.

She looked so cute in those last pictures.. :-(

It's summer, and they're running out of ice.

By now she is.

I’ve heard some of the best embalming in the UK happens in Edinburgh.

Will the funeral be open casket?