These HOOLIGANS BROKE INTO The Tomb Of Elizabeth I...

welcome to her remarkable history remember to support our Channel Please Subscribe breaking into the tomb of Elizabeth the first one of the greatest monarchs in history to rule England was Elizabeth the first she during her Reign saw off the threat from the Spanish Armada and also tried to unite the country in a number of ways one of her most shocking actions was to order the execution of Mary Queen of Scots who many believed was her biggest rival to the throne as Catholics across England wanted the Scottish Monarch to become Queen She faced many plots and was loved by her people however in the early hours of the 24th of March 1603 Elizabeth the first died the Elizabethan era was over and as she did not have an heir the Throne of England passed to James VI of Scotland who then became James the first but it was he who was responsible for ordering a funeral for Elizabeth which benefited her status he also sorted out her tomb and Monument but centuries on her coffin would be open and broken into but what is the story of this Elizabeth had become ill over a number of months and she saw many of her friends die over the last few years of her life she was 69 when she passed away and on her deathbed the Archbishop of Canterbury asked her to think towards God it was said that her throat swelled and she then fell into a deep depression and she was losing the fight for life she died in her privy Chambers at Richmond Palace and she made strict instructions that she did not want to be disemboweled but this was not adhere to Robert Cecil left orders with the surgeons to disembowel her and fill her insides with herbs and spices the queen was then embalmed and her body was placed inside of a lead-lined wooden coffin she lay in state at Richmond for a number of days before she was taken down the Thames to the Palace of Whitehall her coffin was draped in velvet and was watched by six ladies and it was said that when she traveled down river the oars at every stroke did tears let fall there are reports at this time that from the coffin there was a loud crack which could have been Elizabeth's body and head breaking open the coffin this it's believed was from the pressure of gases released from her dead body and it was said that the force of the explosion splintered the wood and the Sea cloth but on the 28th of April a month after her body was taken on a grand possession to Westminster Abbey it was said that the city of Westminster was so charged with a multitude of all sorts of people in the streets house leads and gutters that came to see the obsequies there was such a general sighing groaning and weeping as the light has not been seen or known in memory of man on top of the coffin was the Queen's Effigy which was dressed in her Parliament robes with her crown on her head and her scepter in her hand the coffin was pulled by four horses and she was then taken into Westminster Abbey for the funeral service Dean Andrews conducted the funeral and her coffin was then carried to the Henry VII lady Chapel initially to begin with her body was placed inside of the vault which was also containing the body of her grandfather and grandmother Henry VII and Elizabeth of York but then in 1607 her coffin was moved to be in the same location as her half-sister Mary the first the Protestant Elizabeth was interred alongside her Catholic half-sister it was said that 46 Shillings and four Pence was paid for the removal of the Queen's body to her new resting place on top of this a huge tomb which cost 1485 pound was commissioned and made which showed Elizabeth the First on top the tomb was lifelike and day it's incredibly Grand Mary lays at rest below Elizabeth but there is no Grand and ornate Monument to Mark her place in history only a small Stone today states that Mary is actually buried there but in the 19th century the tomb of Elizabeth the first was broken into a book in 1880 was published by Arthur Stanley who had been given permission to survey all the tombs inside of the Abbey by Queen Victoria he went into the crypts in the Royal Burial Vaults and he wrote detailed descriptions of the tombs and what he saw these vaults were hidden and he was trying to find the coffin of King James the first Elizabeth's successor Stanley explored a narrow aisle underground in the Eastern end of Elizabeth the First's monument and here he found an opening in one of the walls when he went inside he saw a narrow Vault and two coffins inside and these were Elizabeth's and Mary's coffins Arthur Stanley then wrote what he saw and he went into the Vault and he described Elizabeth's coffin he stayed created the excavations however had almost laid bare the wall immediately at the Eastern end of the Monument of Elizabeth and through a small aperture a view was obtained into a low narrow Vault immediately beneath her tomb it was instantly evident that it enclosed two coffins and two only and it could not be doubted that these contained Elizabeth and her sister Mary the upper one larger and more distinctly shaped in the form of the body like that of Mary Queen of Scots rested on the other there was no disorder or Decay except the centering wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth's coffin and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides and had drawn away part Vault of the decaying lid no coffin plate could be discovered but fortunately the dim light fell on a fragment of the lid slightly carved this led to a further search and the original inscription was discovered there was the Tudor badge a full double rose deeply but simply incised in the outline of the middle of the cover on each side the August initials ER and below the memorial date 1603 the coffin lid had been further decorated with narrow molded paneling the Coffin Case was of inch Elm but the ornamental lid containing the inscription and paneling was a fine Oak half an inch thick laid on the inner Elm cover the hole was covered with red silk velvet of which much remained attached to the wood and it had covered not only the sides and ends but also the ornamented oak cover as though the bare wood had not been thought Rich enough without the Velvet the sight of this secluded a narrow tomb thus compressing in the closest grass for the two Tudor sisters partners of the same throne and Grave sleeping in the hope of Resurrection the solemn Majesty of the great Queen thus reposing as can hardly be doubted by her own desire on her sister's coffin was the more impressive form the contrast of his quiet calm with a confused and multi-dinuous decay of the Stuart Vault and the fullness of its tragic interest with the vacancy of the deserted spaces which had been here into explored in other parts of the chapel The Vault was then immediately closed today it's unlikely that anyone will ever be allowed into these Royal vaults to document and photograph the coffins of the monarchs who lived centuries ago but Stanley brings forward a brilliant account of the coffin of Elizabeth the First and why she rests today but he remains one of the only people in history who has been able to see Elizabeth the first coffin and the pseudomonics remains today are still located under the Magnificent tomb of her thank you for watching and to support please subscribe to her remarkable history thank you [Music]

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Length: 8min 3sec (483 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 24 2022