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The Queen’s coronation bouquet has been laid in Westminster Abbey.
The flowers were placed at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior by Queen Camilla’s request following the service on Saturday.
The bouquet is a simple-tied bunch of English spring flowers, featuring auriculas and lily of the valley which both featured in Camilla’s wedding bouquet.
It also featured hellebores, which the King wore in his buttonhole during their wedding in 2005.
Florist Shane Connolly, from Belfast, created the bouquet which included jasmine and wallflowers to add to its sweet scent. He also made the floral arrangements decorating the Abbey during the coronation service.
Camilla did not carry the bouquet herself on coronation day.
Mr Connolly previously said his aim with the arrangements was to make them feel ‘incredibly personal’, as well as showing that UK-grown flowers can be used at a large event.
He also previously created the floral arrangements for the weddings of both Charles and Camilla and the Prince and Princess of Wales.
The Queen’s Coronation bouquet after it was laid at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior (Picture: PA)
The tradition began in 1923 (Picture: REUTERS)
The Grave of the Unknown Warrior sits at the west end of the nave of Westminster Abbey.
It is the grave of an unknown soldier whose body was brought from France to be buried on British soil on November 11 1920.
The grave contains soil from France and is covered by a slab of black Belgian marble – providing a stark contrast to the delicate white, yellow and pink bouquet placed there after the coronation.
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When King George VI (then the Duke of York) married Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon in the Abbey in 1923 she laid her wedding bouquet on the grave as a mark of respect, as she had lost a brother during World War I.
All royal brides married in the Abbey since then have sent their wedding bouquets to be laid on the grave, as have some other royal brides who were married elsewhere.
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The flowers were placed at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior by Queen Camilla’s request following the service on Saturday.
