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Sara Leader at the Diocesan Registry has recently dealt with a most unusual case involving the exhumation of the remains of the late Queen Maria of Yugoslavia from the royal burial ground at Frogmore, Windsor. Queen Maria died in 1961, and was buried at Frogmore, as a relative of our own Queen. Her remains have now been exhumed and transported to Serbia, where they are being reinterred in a family mausoleum along with the bodies of other members of the Yugoslav Royal Family who were dispersed round the world during the period of Communist rule. The case raised a number of interesting points of law, which are dealt with in the Judgement by Chancellor Bursell. Interestingly, he takes up and expands on legal principles last enunciated by his predecessor, Chancellor Peter Boydell, in a case involving the parish church at Hurley, also in this diocese.