Royal Burial Ground, Frogmore

Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

[1] The burial ground was established because the Royal Vault under St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle was becoming full; by 1928, there had been 23 interments since 1810.

[2] King George V allowed the burial ground to be made with the intention that in the future, only British sovereigns and those in the direct line of succession would be buried in the Royal Vault.

The Royal Mausoleum, the resting place of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, is structurally unsound and has been closed to the public since 2007.

Restoration of the mausoleum began in June 2018, to create a dry moat around it and to replace the roof to protect it from the long-standing problem of water infiltration.