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Entry: How King Henry VIII dealt with the Lincolnshire Uprising and the Pilgrimage of Grace (1536-37) - A87806370
Author: Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor - U128652

Lincolnshire history - if I can get to Louth sometime soon I will photograph the plaque on St James Church for this entry.

GB

Excellent, and a good read!

I think I remember the York part in a series? Didn't Sean Bean play Robert Aske?

for reading

That would be the television serial Henry VIII (2003) - can't say I remember it myself

I have rewritten the ending. Is it too gory?

No! That's good!

I think it's high time people found out what used to happen before embalming.

Also, you're right in line with the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle's rant about William.

I presume you mean Henry

Thank you! I did want to hit the right tone.

I have been wondering if that's why guards surround Royal coffins laying in state nowadays (to keep the dogs away).

It might be fun to write up Henry's funeral.

Hey, great idea!

No, I meant William - the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle did not like him. They went on a rant about how he thought he owned the world, now he had six feet of dirt...I don't think The Conqueror exploded, though.

I ran into a 19th-century newspaper account of an exploding corpse, too. Not fun.

I understand now

I wrote up Princess Charlotte of Wales to explain the term "heir and a spare", her parents were Prince George (later King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick - she whom Blackadder described as having the worst personality in Germany, so the entry grew and grew... while I was researching I heard about the debacle that was Caroline's funeral, not long after George was crowned and had her banned from attending the coronation, he also tried to prevent the funeral procession passing through central London, that had to be a separate entry, once I started I couldn't stop!

I love royal history.

You can be our official royal historian.

I just told Andy about our discussion about the exploding corpse - he said it was probably the After Eight mint that did it for him

That's a way to include a Monty Python link if ever I saw one

You'd have to. I don't get the joke, and I'm probably a fair sample of a naive reader.

Well, I can supply the actual sketch link, but viewer discretion is required it's not to my taste, and I didn't get the joke either, I am not a Monty Python fan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aczPDGC3f8U

The number of comments on this video to the effect that this is funny are fairly discouraging. Also the comment that Quentin Tarantino found this too much...

I had to stop the video after about 20 seconds, I was already feeing queasy. I never made it to the After Eight mint -

I completely forgot to scroll down and read the comments with the sound off

William the Bastard's body really exploded on his death, and another gruesome fact is that his son William Rufus was so hated by the Almighty that when he was buried in Winchester Cathedral the tower fell down upon his body. His skull was later used as a after the Civil War when Parliamentarians kicked open all the royal coffins in Winchester and played with the bones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC6okzIKQvg

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Ah, more historical titbits, thanks, BB!

but we really should write an entry about what happened to British royal remains

I was in the New Forest for a run and someone else there came up out of the blue and said, 'We owe the New Forest's existence to William the Conqueror. Did you know his body exploded when he died?' So definitely well-known fact.

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Is the New Forest a free-range nerd zone?