Inside Westminster Abbey, London! (2024) *FULL TOUR*
10A visit to the magnificent Westminster Abbey, home to the Coronation, and 1000 years of royal history!
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs (most recently the Coronation of King Charles III on 6th May 2023), and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs. At least 16 royal weddings have also taken place at the abbey since 1100, including the 2011 royal wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton.
Although the origins of the church are obscure, there was certainly an abbey operating on the site by the mid-10th century housing Benedictine monks. The church got its first grand building in the 1060s under the auspices of the English king Edward the Confessor, who is buried inside. Construction of the present church began in 1245 on the orders of Henry III. The monastery was dissolved in 1559 and the church was made a royal peculiar—a Church of England church responsible directly to the sovereign—by Elizabeth I. In 1987, the abbey, together with the Palace of Westminster and St. Margaret's Church, was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site because of its historic and symbolic significance.
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