| Collection | Queen Adelaide |
| Reference | GEO/MAIN/37102-37103 |
| Record Type | Writings (documents) |
| Title | Queen Adelaide's Testamentary instructions |
| Date | November 1841 |
| Writer | Adelaide, Queen Dowager |
| Description | Two copies of Adelaide's instructions in which she expresses her desire for a funeral without pomp or state and for her remains to be carried by sailors to St George's Chapel in Windsor. She requests that her body is not to be dissected or embalmed.
The second copy of Adelaide's instructions is accompanied by an envelope addressed to Mary Seymour. |
| Language | English |
| Extent | 2 documents (3 pages); 1 envelope |
| Physical Description | Loose lithograph paper |
| Access Conditions | Available in surrogate form only |
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| Level | Item |
| Credit | All rights reserved |
| Publications | These instructions exist in several copies in possession of different people - as Sir Owen's letter, GEO/MAIN/37101, confirms - and have been printed in: Mary Frances Sandars, The Life and Times of Queen Adelaide, 1915. |