The tomb slab and pillows beneath her head are covered with the emblems of Castile and Leon (castles and lions ... around the tomb chest can be translated as Here lies Eleanor, sometime Queen of ...
Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England ("Longshanks"), died at Harby in Notts. in 1290. The Queen's body was taken to Lincoln and thence to London for burial at Westminster Abbey.
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