I have just sauntered round Peterborough Cathedral, following the historical booklet in every little detail. The last one was about a grave digger called Robert Scarlett who died in 1594 aged an incredible 98 years old.
In that time he had buried two queens, and very famous ones at that. The first was Katherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife. It was in divorcing her that Henry divorced the Church of England from the Church of Rome. She died near Peterborough and is buried in the Cathedral.
The second was Mary Queen of Scots who was executed near here and laid to rest for a few years in the same church. But her son, James VI of Scotland and James I of England, took over the throne and brought her bones to London after a few decades. What an incredible story! YES, another one!
This is his picture which is on the Cathedral wall-
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