At the same time, the Dean of Westminster, Arthur Stanley, was searching for a famous writer to boost the standing of Westminster Abbey in British life, and Dickens was seen as the ideal candidate to be laid to rest in Poets' Corner.
In the shadow of Parliament is Westminster Abbey , used for the coronation and burial of British monarchs.
Earlier, arriving in ascending order of royal rank, members of the British Monarchy and Middleton family made their way down the red-carpeted nave of Westminster Abbey, greeting guests before being seated.
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The many Americans who seemed entranced by the royal wedding may be delighted that their president will be staying in Buckingham Palace, will be the Queen's guest of honour at a state banquet, and will get a tour of Westminster Abbey.
Dr Williams has also been pivotal to national events, including the Royal Wedding at which he married the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey in 2011.
The story of the Westminster village - the small enclave around the Abbey and the Houses of Parliament - is full of unexpected twists.
From there we can see dozens of rectangular slabs set into the pavement, marking the burial places of centuries of Florentine families, and along the walls, funerary monuments to some of the greatest names in Italian history, including Dante, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo and Rossini, which make Santa Croce the Italian equivalent of Paris's Pantheon or London's Westminster Abbey, a shrine to the so-called lay saints of a modern nation-state.
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President Banda will be guest of honour at the Westminster Abbey service, which will be attended by Livingstone's 84-year-old great-granddaughter Elspeth Murdoch.
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He said this was odd because the man must have come from a wealthy, important family to have been buried in a place that was the equivalent of London's Westminster Abbey or St Paul's Cathedral.
When James Watt died in 1819, a statue of him was erected in Westminster Abbey and later moved to St.
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Their rumored remains now rest under Westminster Abbey, and a survey of the remains in 1933 found two youth's partial skeletons with a random mix of animal bones.
In 1902, Edward VII was crowned King of Great Britain and Ireland at Westminster Abbey.
In 1838, the coronation of Queen Victoria took place in Westminster Abbey, a year after she had ascended the throne.
Thousands of people across Northern Ireland have held parties to celebrate the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton at Westminster Abbey.
But earlier in the day, the Queen was forced to pull out of the annual Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey, for only the second time since becoming monarch.
During the first day of Mr Yudhoyono's visit, human rights activist Peter Tatchell was arrested for a breach of the peace after he tried to reach the car of the Indonesian president as he left Westminster Abbey.
Westminster Abbey Triforium, which holds the largest collection of Tudor sculptures in the world, has never been open to the public.
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The Langham London Hotel will offer the celebratory Tea Royale throughout April with royal-inspired bites such as sandwiches of Scottish salmon poached in pink Champagne and Westminster Abbey chocolate cake.
At the very start of Parramatta Road, the castle-like buildings of Sydney University were modeled on London's Westminster Abbey.
Nearly an hour after leaving Westminster Abbey, the newlywed pair appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace greeted by an adoring crowd.
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President Banda's three-day trip to the UK will also feature an address to the Scottish Parliament and the laying of a wreath at Livingstone's grave at Westminster Abbey.
Then finally, on April 29, 2011, Catherine married Prince William in a televised ceremony at Westminster Abbey in London, becoming Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, before an audience of millions.
The couple visited Westminster Abbey, where the president laid a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior, and went to see the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at Clarence House.
By the time he died, blind and afflicted by various ailments, he had become so much of a national institution that his wish to be buried in Westminster Abbey was instantly granted, with a large marble statue topping his grave.
The initial discovery of the remains provoked much debate in Britain as to what would happen with the body, if it were proven to be that of Richard III, with many calling for a state funeral at Westminster Abbey, and others backing a burial in York Minster, in keeping with the king's heritage as a member of the House of York.
Last year Mr Forsyth managed to have the Stone of Destiny, a Scottish royal relic which had languished for 700 years in Westminster Abbey, rehoused in Edinburgh.
The pair were married in Westminster Abbey in 1947 and shortly afterwards he returned to duty, rising to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Onlookers hoping to catch a glimpse of Kate in her wedding dress may want to situate themselves along her route to Westminster Abbey (by car, not carriage as has been tradition).
The street names of Spring Gardens (near Trafalgar Square) and Millbank (where the Abbey's mill once stood) echo Westminster's watery past.
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