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The story of Katherine Parr’s burial is one of the strangest in Tudor history — a tale of a queen twice-widowed, four-times-married, who outlived Henry VIII only to be quietly laid to rest, then almost entirely forgotten. When she died at Sudeley Castle in September 1548, days after giving birth, Katherine was buried with full honours in the castle’s St Mary’s Church, the last resting place befitting a Queen of England. But history had other plans. As the chapel fell to ruin during the Civil War, her grave slipped out of memory altogether — lost, overgrown, and unmarked for more than…

A thousand years of royal scandal, a Tudor queen buried in the back garden, and a wooden fort large enough to lose a toddler in for ninety minutes. Sudeley Castle has cracked the code most historic houses can’t: it is, somehow, the most child-friendly day out in the Cotswolds without losing any of its grown-up charm. Save and Pin For Later Sudeley Castle in 60 Seconds Sudeley sits just outside Winchcombe in Gloucestershire, on the site of buildings that go back to Roman times. It’s the only private castle in England with a queen buried in its grounds — Katherine Parr,…

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