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The REAL face of Henry VII? Experts to scan 500-year-old effigy head
So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in Westminster Abbey. But now, the remarkably lifelike effigy head that rested atop his coffin during ...
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Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
Henry VII was the only child of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (son of Henry V's widow Catherine de Valois and Owen Tudor) and his 13-year old wife Lady Margaret Beaufort (who died in the Abbot of ...
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Henry VIII
When Henry VII died in 1509, this popular eighteen-year-old prince, known for his love of hunting and dancing, became King Henry VIII. Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to ...