
Royal funerals: everything you wanted to know
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Is There a Tradition for Gathering Royal Relics?
Collection of royal relics is an ancient tradition stretching back centuries. Anything that touched a monarch their clothing was believed to have magical properties. Even the clothes worn by the funeral effigy would have been gold dust for any relic hunters. Still to clem on the history extora podcast, elizabeth the second's funeral is not predicted to stray too far from the royal state funerals we've seen in the last hundred or so years.
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