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• Royal tombs

  Westminster Abbey is the final resting place of many kings and queens, starting with King Edward the Confessor whose shrine stands just behind the High Altar.

  Royalty

• The Abbey and the Royal Family

  British kings and queens have forged a strong bond with Westminster Abbey. Since 1066 every British monarch, except two, has been crowned here.

• Royal Weddings

  When the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were married at Westminster Abbey in April 2011, they followed a long line of British royal weddings.

• Designing Tudor tombs

• Royal Wedding Address

  Friday, 29th April 2011

  Address given by The Right Reverend and Right Honourable Dr Richard Chartres, KCVO Bishop of London.

• Music from the reign of King James I

  A selection of works from the first quarter of the seventeenth century, when musicians produced a rich variety of music for the court of King James I.

• History of Westminster Abbey

  An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey houses tombs and memorials to kings and queens and the famous and the great.

  Architecture Christianity

• Flag days

  At various times of the year, we fly the flags of Commonwealth nations, St Peter, the National Saints, the RAF, and the Royal Standard.

• Sermon Given at The Chapel Royal St James's Palace on Good Friday 2016

  Friday, 25th March 2016

  Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

• Where does wise leadership come from?

  In our parliamentary democracy, leaders are not only elected by the people, they are themselves drawn from the people.

• From Accession to the Abbey

• Royal funeral assembly for primary

• Royal funeral assembly for secondary

• Investigating royal funerals

• Examining royal funerals

• Sermon Given at the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, Good Friday 2017

  Friday, 14th April 2017

  Sermon given by The Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster.

• Sermon preached at Evensong on the Baptism of Christ 2024

  Sunday, 7th January 2024

  Sermon preached for the Baptism of Christ 2024: Returning from Bethlehem. ‘Homewards’ is the name of the Prince of Wales’s new anti-homelessness initiative. Prince William has decided to focus an enormous amount.

• Sermon in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, on Good Friday 2019

  Friday, 19th April 2019

  Sermon in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace on Good Friday 2019: The passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ stand at the centre of our historic inheritance in this country..

• 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture

  Thursday, 2nd May 2013

  Dame Averil Cameron gives the 28th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture on Constantine's Vision and the Church Today - From the Battle of the Milvian Bridge (AD 312) to the twenty-first century.

• Watch services from the Abbey

  Enjoy and experience regular and special services from Westminster Abbey from wherever you are in the world - either live or on demand.