Prince Bernhard, the father of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, was laid to rest on Saturday while a trumpeter played "The Last Post" in a religious ceremony with military honours. Bernhard, who was loved among the Dutch for his wartime military service, died on December 1, aged 93.
As Bernhard's coffin was carried into the royal crypt a trumpeter sounded "The Last Post", a solo usually played to commemorate fallen soldiers.
The prince's four daughters, dressed in off-white, followed the coffin into the crypt, where the princes of the house of Orange have been buried since Willem I (1533-1584), as the choir sang Faure's requiem.
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