Anne's Funeral

Can anyone tell me why there was a 9-day interval between the day Anne
died and the day she was buried? Did it take a week to embalm someone,
or was there a specified time the body laid in state, or....

Died: Wed. 16 March 1485
Burial: Fri. 25 March 1485
(Per Ashdown-Hill's *Last Days of R3*)

Also, would she have been "on display" in some chapel for days before
the funeral, or would she have been carried from [somewhere] to the
Abbey the day of the funeral? While Richard couldn't attend her
funeral by tradition, would he have been in attendance some other
time?

Thanks so much for your help.

~Weds



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She may have lain in St Stephens Chapel which was part of the Palace of Westminster before she was taken to the Abbey...which was just across the road...Eileen

--- In , Wednesday McKenna <wednesday.mac@...> wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me why there was a 9-day interval between the day Anne
> died and the day she was buried? Did it take a week to embalm someone,
> or was there a specified time the body laid in state, or....
>
> Died: Wed. 16 March 1485
> Burial: Fri. 25 March 1485
> (Per Ashdown-Hill's *Last Days of R3*)
>
> Also, would she have been "on display" in some chapel for days before
> the funeral, or would she have been carried from [somewhere] to the
> Abbey the day of the funeral? While Richard couldn't attend her
> funeral by tradition, would he have been in attendance some other
> time?
>
> Thanks so much for your help.
>
> ~Weds
>
>
>
> --
> Friend: Are you upset about the outcome of the election?
> Me: I'm upset about the outcome of the War of the Roses.
>