The Queen’s coffin is now at rest at Buckingham Palace.
The 775-room palace was her primary residence from the year of her coronation in 1953 until the beginning of the Covid pandemic in 2020.
But the late monarch is said to have held mixed feelings towards the grand home.
According to royal biographer Penny Junor in her book The Firm, the Queen had originally wanted to settle in Clarence House in London – where she had lived with her late husband Prince Philip after they were married in 1947.
But following her coronation in 1953, Sir Winston Churchill, the prime minister at the time, pushed for the couple to move to Buckingham Palace, according to Junor.
The Queen went onto live in Buckingham Palace’s private quarters until 2020, when she made the move to Windsor Castle at the start of the pandemic.