The Early Royal State Funerals

Details are scant for these earliet funerals, but do we have a sense of how the ceremony surrounding royal funerals and state funerals has evolved over the centuries? They have always been very elaborate occasions, but i think it's fair to say that, certainly from the reign of victoria, they have become ever more ostentatious. The pomp and the pageantry writ large. And what's the earliest royar funeral in the country that we know about? Well, really it seems that for as long as we have records of kings er then we have Records of funerals. What we don't have are the details of those funerals. We have usually the place of