![]() The coffin was opened and the body of a woman was found, in remarkably good condition. He found a coffin with a lead plate that read ‘Kateryne the Quene’. In 1782, some women visiting the area noticed a slab of alabaster among the ruins and persuaded a local farmer to start digging around it. The tomb of Henry VIII’s last queen was lost among the ruins until a group of tourists began digging, Its picturesque remains were covered in moss and hidden by wild flowers and plants that swirled around its faded glory while sheep grazed on land that had once been walked on by royalty. ![]() Local villagers took stones from the building to shore up their own homes and by the late 18th century, Sudeley was a famous romantic ruin. Over the following decades it fell into ruin and Katherine’s tomb faded into history with it. Cromwell and his forces were less than pleased with that decision and slighted the building. ![]() Sudeley Castle itself fell into ruin after it became a royalist stronghold during the English Civil War. Katherine was laid to rest on September 5th 1548 and swiftly forgotten as her husband pursed a disastrous attempt to take control of the young king and the Tudor court swirled with intrigue through the short reign of Edward VI and the bloody battle for the throne which saw Mary I vanquish the claim of Lady Jane who was executed in 1554. She had become deeply interested in the Protestant beliefs that Katherine espoused and followed her beloved protector’s coffin into the church at Sudeley Castle for the first public funeral for a public figure to be conducted under the new rites. Lady Jane Grey had looked up to Katherine, one of the few people to show any interest less alone kindness to the neglected girl. Instead, chief mourner at the funeral of Katherine Parr, Queen of England, was another of the young women of the Tudor court who had ended up in her care as the determined Thomas Seymour bought her wardship. Her husband left the castle soon afterwards, not even waiting for her to be buried. She died at Sudeley on September 5th 1548. Although she seemed healthy throughout her pregnancy with access to the best possible care during her confinement, soon after the birth of her daughter, named Mary, on August 30th 1548, Katherine began to show signs of puerperal fever. Katherine was old for a first time mother in Tudor times, being around 36 years. She was also expecting a baby by the time they arrived at Sudeley, the first time she had become pregnant in her many marriages. Katherine, on the other hand, seemed totally smitten with the man who had become her fourth spouse. Mary’s Church at Sudeley, last resting place of Katherine Parr, is surrounded by the Cotswold hills (Photo by Lydia Starbuck) And he was also keeping his options open with his interest in Henry’s daughter, Elizabeth, reaching beyond proper. He was unscrupulous, ambitious and increasingly bitter that his older brother, Edward, had been given control of their nephew, Jane’s son, now Edward VI. But for all his good looks and charm, Thomas was a far from ideal match. Soon after Henry’s death, Katherine had married Thomas Seymour, the handsome and rather charming brother of the late king’s third wife, Jane. Katherine Parr, sixth wife of Henry VIII, had come to live at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire in 1548 alongside the man who replaced the king as her husband. And the castle she had once called home is now rebuilt with her tomb nestled safely in its pretty church. The drama continued after death, for her grave was lost for decades before a farmer accidentally rediscovered it under the watchful eye of restless tourists. But behind this calm serenity lies the tomb of a queen whose life was filled with drama and whose end was soon forgotten in the tumult of Tudor politics. The walls are golden yellow while around it grow sweet scented flowers and glossy, regal trees. * /tagge… & /tagge… & /tagge… & the prettiness of rolling countryside and the gentle sound of sheep grazing sits a castle with its own little chapel. ** /index.php/Chibius… ( /index.php/Princes… ) Sourced from VK AND fellow deviant, gabriel444 ( ): showing mother-&-daughter in their full-length dresses-as-seen-in Settei from the first/original 1992 "Bishōjo Senshi Sailor Moon" Anime-Vectored.ĭisclaimer. AND her daughter, the Crown Princess, Neo Princess Serenity (ネオ・プリンセス・セレニティ, "Neo Purinsesu Sereniti"), Heir to the Thrones of the Moon and the Earth Kingdoms and Future Queen of the Silver Millennium. A Comparison of the Character Designs for the Queen-Regnant, Neo Queen Serenity (ネオ・クイーン・セレニティ, "Neo Kuīn Sereniti"), previously the Moon Princess Serenity, now Queen of the Moon and the Earth Kingdoms and High Queen of the Silver Millennium.
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