TODAY, at 11 a.m., the Queen is expected to arrive at a small chapel on the outskirts of Edinburgh, to remember a young man whose death caused her "distress" as a 19-year-old princess.

The Robin Chapel, in Craigmillar, was built in 1950 by Sir Francis and Lady Tudsbery in memory of their only son, Robin, a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, who was killed in Germany in the last days of the Second World War.

Before he was dispatched to Germany, Tudsbery served in the Household Cavalry, escorting King George VI, and Queen Elizabeth, and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose. On 4 May 1945, the day that Germany surrendered, his family received the news that he had been killed in action.

A message from Windsor Castle to his parents read: "Their Majesties and the Princesses were so distressed to hear of the death of your son, and I am to tell you how much they liked having him here at the castle."

By the time the Robin Chapel was dedicated on 20 August 1953, the King had died, and it was the young Queen Elizabeth who attended the ceremony.

The service on Friday will mark the 60th anniversary of this dedication. On Monday, the Revd Thomas Coupar, of the Scottish Episcopal Church, said that the service will be based on that held in 1953. A thanksgiving prayer from the prayer book will be said, in addition to Psalm 21, from the 1650 psalter of the Church of Scotland. The congregation will sing "Lead, kindly light", by Blessed John Henry Newman.

The Grade A listed building has nine stained-glass windows by Sadie McLellan, based on Pilgrim's Progress. Bunyan's work is also referenced over the west-door entrance, which bears the inscription "Come in, come in, eternal glory thou shalt win".

Behind the font is a portrait of Tudsbery as a boy; and the east window (part of which is seen above), above the altar, shows him in a chariot, being received into heaven.

Mr Coupar said that the chapel still supported Tudsbery's regiment; and also the Thistle Foundation, the organisation set up by Sir Francis and Lady Tudsbery in 1944, which runs courses for soldiers who are returning to civilian life.

The Times reported this month that, shortly before Tudsbery's departure from Windsor Castle, he had a farewell tea with the Princesses, made by Princess Elizabeth from a silver kettle.