Six wives of One King day 6

Day 6 Peterborough & Cambridge. After a fabulous night at the George hotel in Stamford and dinner in the Oak room we set off for Peterborough Cathedral where Catherine of Aragon lies buried. We had a personal guided tour and were shown parts of the Cathedral that the ordinary visitor would not see. The place is huge and has the most unique painted ceiling in the Nave and a fan vaulted ceiling in the extension built in 1505 by the architect John Wastell, the same man who is responsible for the masterpiece that is Kings College chapel in Cambridge. The real reason to visit here is to pay our respects to Catherine of Aragon and she lies under a simple black marble slab by the side of the Alter. I had taken some rosemary from Catherine’s Garden at Buckden yesterday and each one of our group had a private moment laying a sprig of fresh rosemary on her last resting place. Opposite Catherine on the other side of the Alter is the former grave of Mary Queen of Scots before she was taken to Westminster when her son James I was made King of England. At Cambridge and inside Kings College chapel we were treated to music from the great organ, (well it was being tuned). The place is simply magnificent, by far the best single building that Henry VIII left us. It has the largest fan vaulted roof in the world and has breathtaking stained glass windows. There is a whole guide book just for the windows. In the days when people could not read and write is was a way of telling those people what the glory of God was all about and in these windows there appears King Henry VIII as Soloman. Also looking up at him is Catherine Howard in profile. We finished our daily travel in London, at a Hotel very near the Thames and alson near the Globe Theatre. We had a very pleasant walk around Southwark taking in some places that the ordinary visitor would not see. We had fish and chips at the George Inn, the oldest galleried pub in England and where Dickens and Shakespeare would have known