Royal funerals: everything you wanted to know
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The Last Wax Ineffigy of a Deceased Monarch
The last effigy of a monarch to be carried in procession was that of james the first. A lot of them still survive, and they're kept at westminster abbey. They give us all sorts of interesting details about these long deceased monarchs. And we know er she thought she was pregnant and she wasn't. She most likely had a sist or a tumour which may have been what killed her.
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