 His badly decomposed body was brought back to Spithead on board the British troopship , and thence transferred onto HMS "Enchantress" for sailing on to Woolwich Arsenal; overnight, he lay in state in the western octagonal guardhouse by the riverfront.The funeral procession, including Queen Victoria, went from there to Chislehurst, where he was buried.On 9 January 1888, his body was transferred to a special mausoleum constructed by his mother as the Imperial Crypt at Saint Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Hampshire, England, next to his father.