Visitors to Windsor Castle will be able to pay their respects at the burial site of the Queen from next week when it reopens to the public.
People will be able to enter St George’s Chapel from 29 September, just over a week after the monarch was laid to rest.
The Queen‘s name has been inscribed alongside her mother’s, father’s and husband’s on the ledger stone in the George VI Memorial Chapel.
She was laid to rest with the Duke of Edinburgh on Monday evening in a private service attended by the King and the royal family, after her state funeral at Westminster Abbey and committal service in Windsor.
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Buckingham Palace said the inscription on the ledger stone in the George VI Memorial Chapel now has the names of the Queen, her parents and Philip, along with their years of birth and death.
The new stone has replaced the black stone slab set into the floor which had featured the names George VI and Elizabeth in gold lettering.
The stone now lists “George VI 1895-1952” and “Elizabeth 1900-2002” followed by a metal Garter Star and then “Elizabeth II 1926-2022” and “Philip 1921-2021”.
All four royals were members of the Order of the Garter, which has St George’s Chapel as its spiritual home.
The chapel will be accessible on all days the castle is open to the public, excluding Sundays when it is only open for worshippers.
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The royal family is continuing its period of mourning for the Queen, to be observed until seven days after the funeral.
Charles is believed to have flown to Scotland with the Queen Consort to grieve privately.
Members of the royal family are not expected to carry out official engagements, and flags at royal residences will remain at half-mast until 8am after the final day of royal mourning.
Earlier, counter-terrorism police confirmed they received more than 800 reports from the public about suspicious activity during the operation after the death of the Queen – double the average level.
Head of counter terrorism policing Matt Jukes said one in eight of the reports made during the mourning period, known as Operation London Bridge, is “actively being used as intelligence” by investigators.
