 On the day of her funeral , 9 April , the Governor General of Canada issued a proclamation asking Canadians to honour her memory that day . In Australia , the Governor @-@ General read the lesson at a memorial service held in St Andrew 's Cathedral , Sydney . In London , more than a million people filled the area outside Westminster Abbey and along the 23 @-@ mile ( 37 km ) route from central London to her final resting place beside her husband and younger daughter in St George 's Chapel , Windsor Castle . At her request , after her funeral the wreath that had lain atop her coffin was placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior , in a gesture that echoed her wedding @-@ day tribute 79 years before . 
