April 1, 2002	Monday	Muharram 17, 1423

LONDON, March 31: Britain’s Queen Mother will be buried at Windsor Castle beside her husband King George VI, who died 50 years ago, after a ceremonial funeral on April 9, Buckingham Palace announced on Sunday.

Prince Charles and his two teenage sons, Princes William and Harry, returned to Windsor Castle to mourn their grandmother and great-grandmother, who died on Saturday at the age of 101.

The Queen Mother, whose life covered a century of tumultuous change for the world and the royal House of Windsor, died in her sleep with her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, at her bedside.

Under a grey sky, Britain got its first glimpse of the royal matriarch’s coffin. Draped in her personal standard and topped with pink and white flowers, it was carried through a garden of golden daffodils to a small chapel in Windsor Great Park.—Reuters