what happened to catherine parr's body

Catherine Parr, Henry VIII’s sixth wife, died in 1548 from complications of childbirth. She was buried at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, near the chapel where she had died, and the resting place remained relatively undisturbed for more than two centuries. Beginning in the late 18th century, her tomb became the subject of repeated exhumations and disturbances, with her coffin opened several times and her remains briefly examined, inspected, and even moved. In 1817, her remains were removed from the lead coffin and reinterred in a public effigy at Sudeley, where they are still associated with the monument today. The episodes of disturbance are among the most famous examples of Victorian-era and older antiquarian curiosity surrounding royal burial sites.