How did queen elizabeth the 1st's coffin look like?

Answer 1

Now, it's hard to answer that for certain. But I can tell you the coffin she was in for her funeral was a lead coffin. And during the funeral it was draped in purple velvet, and topped with a very life-like effigy of the queen. then the body of Elizabeth was put in the vault of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York until the modern monument was made in 1606 and her coffin was moved to the vault underneath with her half-sister Mary's. so, in the 1800's when they were looking for where James I was buried Elizabeth and Mary's vault/tomb was opened. It was said that Elizabeth's coffin rested on top of her half-sister Mary's. there the coffin was wood and "larger and more distinctly shaped in the form of a body". Now, I assume this means that it would have had a specific head shape in the coffin. I say this because that is the way her father's looked. (his was opened in the early 1800's but for different reasons) this is what her father's, Jane Seymour's and Charles I's looked like: (they are all buried in a vault together in St George's Chapel)

Also carved on the wood coffin is "ER" each letter on either side of of a Tudor Rose and the date "1603".