Born
at
Westminster
Palace
in 1466, Elizabeth
of York married Henry VII in 1486 and was Queen until her
death during childbirth at the Tower
of London
in
1503. She is buried in Westminster
Abbey
and
was the mother of Henry
VIII.
Elizabeth
of York
Royal
consorts buried at Westminster Abbey
Arthur,
Prince of Wales, the eldest son and heir to the throne of Henry
VII, married Catherine of Aragon at St
Paul's Cathedral
in 1501. He died the following year and in 1509 his widow became the
first of six wives of his younger brother, the newly crowned Henry
VIII.
Accused
of adultery Henry VIII's second wife Anne
Boleyn was beheaded
privately on Tower Green at the Tower
of London
in
1536.
She is buried in the chapel there.
Queen since 1533 when they had been secretly married, she gave birth
to the future Elizabeth
I
the same year.
Anne
Boleyn
Anne
Boleyn
Famous
people imprisoned at the Tower of London
Henry
VIII's fifth wife Catherine
Howard became queen in 1540 but was beheaded in 1542 on Tower
Green at the Tower
of London.
She is buried in the chapel there.
Catherine
Howard
Famous
people imprisoned at the Tower of London
Guilford
Dudley, husband of - and for nine days consort
to - Lady Jane Grey was
imprisoned with his wife at the Tower
of London on
the orders of Mary
I in
1553. He was executed publicly on Tower Hill
on the same day as Lady Jane in 1554. He is buried with her
in the chapel there.
Famous
people imprisoned at the Tower of London
Anne
of Cleves died in 1557 at Chelsea. In
1540 she had become Henry VIII's fourth wife but in the same year
the marriage was annulled and Henry remarried. She had survived Henry
and all his other five wives and was buried in Westminster
Abbey.
Anne
of Cleves
Royal
consorts buried at Westminster Abbey
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