Dr Kat and Henry VIII's Boring Grave?

Описание: Today I'm responding to a Twitter question: "Why does Henry VIII have such a boring grave at St George's Chapel in Windsor? He built flamboyant palaces."

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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [   • Greenery – Silent Partner (No Copyright Mu...  ]

John Speed’s text is digitised at: https://play.google.com/books/reader?... (the start of the transcription about Henry VIII’s planned tomb begins here to on p.1053 (digital page 1071)).



Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Photograph of the tomb of Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England in Westminster Abbey.

Photograph of the tomb of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York in Westminster Abbey.

Lady Margaret Beaufort by Meynnart Wewyck (c.1510). Held at The Master's Lodge, St John's College, Cambridge.

Portrait of Edward VI of England, by an artist from the circle of William Scrots (16th century). Held in a private collection.

Portrait of Queen Mary I of England, by Antonis Mor (1554). Held by the Museo del Prado.

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I of England in her coronation robes by an unknown artist (between 1600 and 1610 copy of a lost original of c. 1559). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Photograph of the burial marker for Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Charles I and an infant child of Queen Anne in the floor of the Quire of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.

Water colour by A.Y. Nutt of the vault containing Henry VIII’s remains (1888) – SGC RBK H.386.

Portrait of Henry VIII, after Hans Holbein (after 1537). Held by the Walker Art Gallery.

Portrait of Katherine of Aragon by an unknown artist (early 18th century). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Portrait of Jane Seymour by Hans Holbein (c.1536 –1537). Held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Extract and transcript from Henry VIII’s will detailing his wishes regarding burial and tomb (1546). Held by the National Archives, E23/4.

Conjectured drawing of Henry VIII’s tomb by Alfred Higgins (1894). Held in the Windor Chapel Archives, SGC P.169-P.180.

Portrait of Thomas Wolsey by an unknown artist (1589-1595, based on a work of c.1520) Held by the National Portrait Gallery.

Artist’s impression of how the tomb for Cardinal Thomas Wolsey may have been intended to look, if it had ever been finished.

Photograph of the tomb of Horatio Nelson, Saint-Paul's Cathedral, London, England. Taken by mhx (2015).