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Final chapter of remembrance: Queen Elizabeth will interred¹ at Windsor Castle

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The state funeral is over and the long procession through London has concluded. In a private ceremony, Queen Elizabeth will be interred at Windsor Castle next to her late husband.

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

The state funeral is over. The long procession through London has concluded. In a final chapter of the 10 days of official mourning, Queen Elizabeth II will be interred at Windsor Castle. NPR correspondent Eleanor Beardsley is there and joins us now. Eleanor, explain the significance of this place, Windsor Castle, to the queen.

ELEANOR BEARDSLEY, BYLINE³: OK. Well, Rachel, she spent her weekends here. This was said to be her favorite residence. It was a place where she could relax from her busy schedule and be surrounded by family because they all live close by. For example, William's house - Kate, their family - they're, like, a 10-minute drive. Also, she grew up here. Her girlhood was spent at Windsor. She spent the war years here. She actually made her first radio address from here in 1940 at the age of 14 to the children of London who had to be evacuated⁴ from the Nazi⁵ bombing of London. And she and her sister, Margaret, waited out the war here as well. She loved the vast grounds and the nature, the ancient trees and forests. She rode horses here at Windsor into her 90s, people say.

MARTIN: We hear a plane going overhead. So much pomp and circumstance, security.

BEARDSLEY: Yeah, that's the - there's a lot of plane traffic from Heathrow.

MARTIN: It is such a highly choreographed⁶ day, Eleanor, right? I mean, every detail has been planned for years. Tell us exactly what's expected to happen there.

BEARDSLEY: Well, the next thing that's going to happen, Rachel, is the queen's coffin⁷ is going to arrive and be put back on that gun carriage that carried her father's coffin. And she's going to make a 2-1/2-mile last ride down what's known as the Long Walk. It's the avenue that leads through the Windsor estate to the castle gates. And, Rachel, there are tens of thousands of people who have shown up to just gather on both sides of this road, in this grassy⁸ place with tree-lined. And they're waiting to see her to pay their last respects. And one of them is grandmother Beverly Robinson (ph), who got up at 5 in the morning and took a car and four trains to be here. Here she is.

BEVERLY ROBINSON: We've come from Nottingham. I'm with my son and my two granddaughters. It's kind of a once-in-a-lifetime thing. She's the queen - always been our queen and going to be our only queen because it'll be kings after that. So I felt it was a privilege to come.

MARTIN: Interesting to hear that particular reflection. The queen will be buried in St. George's Chapel⁹. I mean, its history goes back nearly 500 years, includes both royal weddings and funerals - her husband's, in fact, Prince Philip. His funeral was held there last year, right?

BEARDSLEY: Rachel, it was. He died last year. And I don't know if you remember those striking images of the queen all alone at his funeral, wearing black and wearing a black face mask because it was in the midst of the COVID, you know, pandemic.

MARTIN: Pandemic, right.

BEARDSLEY: That's right. Philip was - he's actually been sort of on hold in a royal vault¹⁰. His body will now be moved to lay with hers. So the love of her life, her husband of 73 years - she will be laid to rest with him in the family chapel this evening.

MARTIN: And it'll be - as opposed to the great ceremony of today at Westminster Abbey, tonight will be a far more intimate, family-centered affair, correct?

BEARDSLEY: That's right. There's going to be just the royal family and close friends and those who served her and also, you know, leaders of the Church of England. It's going to include her favorite hymns¹¹ and prayers. And, Rachel, there's going to be some important gestures that will take place at the end of the ceremony, a very symbolic¹² gesture - the crown jeweler will remove the crown, the scepter and the orb¹³ from her casket to separate the queen from her crown for the last time. And then this evening, very late, there will be a completely private ceremony of only her family. And after that, she will be put into the vault alongside her husband and also her parents and her sister, Margaret.

MARTIN: NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reporting from Windsor Castle, where Queen Elizabeth II will be interred later today in a private ceremony. Thank you, Eleanor.

BEARDSLEY: Thank you, Rachel.

1 interred   

v.埋，葬( inter的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Marie Curie's remains were exhumed and interred in the Pantheon. 玛丽·居里的遗体被移出葬在先贤祠中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The body was interred at the cemetery. 遗体埋葬在公墓里。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

5 Nazi   

n.纳粹分子，adj.纳粹党的，纳粹的

参考例句：

• They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
• Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。

6 choreographed   

v.设计舞蹈动作( choreograph的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• There was some carefully choreographed flag-waving as the President drove by. 总统的车经过时，人们按精心编排的动作挥舞着旗帜。
• Achim had choreographed the dance in Act II himself. 阿希姆自己设计了第2幕的舞蹈动作。 来自辞典例句

7 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

8 grassy   

adj.盖满草的；长满草的

参考例句：

• They sat and had their lunch on a grassy hillside.他们坐在长满草的山坡上吃午饭。
• Cattle move freely across the grassy plain.牛群自由自在地走过草原。

9 chapel   

n.小教堂，殡仪馆

参考例句：

• The nimble hero,skipped into a chapel that stood near.敏捷的英雄跳进近旁的一座小教堂里。
• She was on the peak that Sunday afternoon when she played in chapel.那个星期天的下午，她在小教堂的演出，可以说是登峰造极。

10 vault   

n.拱形圆顶，地窖，地下室

参考例句：

• The vault of this cathedral is very high.这座天主教堂的拱顶非常高。
• The old patrician was buried in the family vault.这位老贵族埋在家族的墓地里。

11 hymns   

n.赞美诗，圣歌，颂歌( hymn的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• At first, they played the hymns and marches familiar to them. 起初他们只吹奏自己熟悉的赞美诗和进行曲。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
• I like singing hymns. 我喜欢唱圣歌。 来自辞典例句

12 symbolic   

adj.象征性的，符号的，象征主义的

参考例句：

• It is symbolic of the fighting spirit of modern womanhood.它象征着现代妇女的战斗精神。
• The Christian ceremony of baptism is a symbolic act.基督教的洗礼仪式是一种象征性的做法。

13 orb   

n.太阳；星球；v.弄圆；成球形

参考例句：

• The blue heaven,holding its one golden orb,poured down a crystal wash of warm light.蓝蓝的天空托着金色的太阳，洒下一片水晶般明亮温暖的光辉。
• It is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.它是从远处那个发出不灭之光的天体上放射出来的。