You may be aware of Eleanor’s Cross shopping precinct, off High Street North in Dunstable, but are you aware of who Eleanor ...

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.

Joan was a daughter of Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile and was born at Acre in the spring of 1272. You are surrounded by history at the Abbey, not like a museum where it’s just displayed, ...