Burial Record Citation: 1) St. Margaret's Parish Record., 2) Westminster Abbey website validates St. Margaret's as Margaret Radcliffe's burial location, 2) Tudorplace website, 3) Other online resources. Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. It is said she died from grief at the loss of her brother.
Burial Record Citation: 1) St. Margaret's Parish Record., 2) Westminster Abbey website validates St. Margaret's as Margaret Radcliffe's burial location, 2) Tudorplace website, 3) Other online resources. Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. It is said she died from grief at the loss of her brother.
Inscription
Marble weep, for thou dost cover
A dead beauty underneath thee,
Rich as nature could bequeath thee:
Grant, then, no rude hand remove her.
All the gazers on the skies
Read not in fair heaven's story
Expresser truth or truer glory,
Than they might in her bright eyes.
Rare as wonder was her wit;
And like nectar ever flowing:
Till time, strong by her bestowing,
Conquered have both life and it.
Life whose grief was out of fashion
In these times. Few have so rued
Fate in a brother. To conclude,
For wit, feature, and true passion
Earth, thou hast not such another.
Gravesite Details
Monument covering her remains has disappeared.
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