Given the passing and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, I thought it might be interesting to dig into how our Tudor friends memorialized and marked the passing of their monarchs. And so I dug into the funerals of five Tudor monarchs.

SOURCES

The Funeral of Henry VII on Tony Riches’ Blog
https://tonyriches.blogspot.com/2016/05/an-account-of-funeral-of-king-henry-vii.html

The Funeral of Henry VIII on Historic Royal Palaces
https://blog.hrp.org.uk/curators/wax-hearse-for-henry-viii-funeral

The Funeral of Edward VI on The Freelance History Writer
https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/2018/01/05/the-funeral-of-king-edward-vi/

The Funeral of Mary I on The Tudors and Other Histories
https://tudorsandotherhistories.wordpress.com/2015/12/14/the-funeral-of-queen-mary-i-she-was-a-kings-daughter-sister-wife-and-a-king-also/

The Funeral of Elizabeth I on the Tudor Travel Guide
https://thetudortravelguide.com/2019/07/20/the-death-and-burial-of-elizabeth-i/

The funeral procession of Elizabeth I with woodcut images
https://www.univ.ox.ac.uk/news/funeral-procession-elizabeth-i/