Absolute must-see video - Lin Wood tells truths, including what Q has told us!!!
https://rumble.com/vfrw5n-game-over-lin-wood-just-confirmed-it-all.html
This BBC story shows stills from the actual funeral, and they show the hearse as televised. The Daily Mail story gives a lot of background, but the Land Rover is completely different since it never had been seen in public (they speculated it would look like Prince Phillip's Land Rover Defender 130 Gun Bus).
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-56762822
5) A Land Rover for a hearse
It was an unusual sight to see a green Land Rover in the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral procession to St George's Chapel, and a marked contrast to previous royal funerals, when the sombre sight of a traditional hearse greeted mourners.
But Land Rovers have been favourite vehicles of the duke's for decades, so when it came to planning for his funeral there really was only one choice of vehicle to bear him on his final journey.
The duke spent 16 years modifying this particular model, a Land Rover Defender TD5 130, which was made at the company's Solihull factory in 2003.
He began overseeing the work needed to turn it into his own bespoke hearse that year, when he was 82, and made the final adjustments in 2019, the year he turned 98.
The utility vehicle was repainted in military green at the duke's request and he designed the open-top rear for his coffin, as well as the "stops" to secure it in place.
It's been widely reported over the years that Prince Philip once quipped to the Queen about his future funeral: "Just stick me in the back of a Land Rover and drive me to Windsor." Although Covid restrictions meant there was no procession from central London to Windsor, the duke got the other part of that wish.
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The Daily Mail had various pics, but not of the actual vehicle. Pic shows what they speculated it might look like. Per Katy Tur, the lead-lined coffin weighed 700 pounds!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9465555/Prince-Philip-laid-rest-English-oak-coffin-lined-lead.html
https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1383419469473583104
Mourners have again been warned to stay at home for Prince Philip's funeral and could be fined because of Covid laws as it was revealed he will be laid to rest in a lead-lined English oak coffin made for him more than 30 years ago along with a matching casket for the Queen.
The Duke of Edinburgh will be borne to St George's Chapel in Windsor in the back of his self-designed hearse, one of two 'open top' hybrid Land Rovers developed with the help of the Army.
Despite his eco-friendly and slightly eccentric arrival at church, Philip will be in a traditional English oak coffin made decades ago along with one for his wife the Queen.
It is usual for British royals to be laid to rest in lead-lined coffins because they keep out moisture and preserve the body for longer. Princess Diana's was so heavily lined it weighed a quarter of a tonne.
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Yesterday it was revealed that Army engineers rushed to prepare two modified hybrid Land Rovers Prince Philip had personally designed as 'open top' hearses for his funeral just hours after he was admitted to hospital in February.
A team from the Corps of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) were deployed from their base at MOD Lyneham, Wiltshire, when the Duke of Edinburgh went into the King Edward VII's Hospital in Marylebone.
Once he fell ill two months ago Army mechanics replaced parts and ran safety checks on the vehicles - one black and one green - at an unnamed site where they have been kept in storage for several years, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The vehicles have never been seen in public but Philip, Colonel-in-Chief of REME, is believed to have designed the two vehicles personally, including an open roof for use in good weather. One MoD source told MailOnline that the vehicles are both likely to have been armour-plated.
It is not clear which one of the vehicles, believed to be hybrids, will be used on Saturday but claims that the eco-conscious duke will be carried in £900 wool coffin because they are sustainably made has been dismissed by palace sources.
Philip is believed to have worked with soldiers from REME to modify two Land Rover Defenders to carry his coffin 'some time ago', having famously told his wife the Queen: 'Just stick me in the back of a Land Rover and drive me to Windsor.'
The Duke of Edinburgh's funeral has been massively scaled back because of the Covid-19 pandemic. A special Land Rover would have carried the Duke's body 23-miles from Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner to St George's Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
Now it will only travel from the castle to the church, where only 30 guests are allowed.