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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…

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