The Norman-French inscription around the tomb chest can be translated as Here lies Eleanor, sometime Queen of England, wife of King Edward son of King Henry, and daughter of the King of Spain and ...
Twelve crosses were built by King Edward I after Queen Eleanor's death near Lincoln in 1290, and marked each of the places her funeral cortege stopped on its way to London. The cross in ...
Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England ("Longshanks"), died at Harby in Notts. in 1290. The Queen's body was taken to Lincoln and thence to London for burial at Westminster Abbey.
A Fabergé cigarette case given to King Edward VII by an ancestor of the Queen will be featured in a new Buckingham Palace ...
That same year she married Louis, heir to Louis VI of France, who shortly afterwards became king as Louis VII. The couple had two daughters. In 1147, Eleanor accompanied her husband on the Second ...
Princess Katherine, daughter of King Henry III and his queen Eleanor of Provence, is buried in Westminster ... This tomb was at one time in St Edward the Confessor's chapel but was displaced when ...