![]() ![]() The Latin inscriptions on the tomb all extol Elizabeth’s achievements as they were seen at the time of her death. Elizabeth’s effigy reflects the appearance of how the Queen would have looked in old age. You could be forgiven for thinking that this is all the great marble tomb is – a magnificent monument built on the orders of James I, the first Stuart monarch, to honour Elizabeth, the last monarch of the House of Tudor, for it is her recumbent effigy alone that is upon the tomb. These words – unquestionably correct – confirm that here was the tomb of ‘Gloriana’ – England’s Queen Elizabeth I, only this is not the entire story. “That’s the tomb of Queen Elizabeth the First” this was the remark I heard when I last visited Henry VII’s Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. ![]()
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