Royal progress day 9

Day 9 Peterborough Cathedral and Cambridge Peterborough Cathedral is where Catherine of Aragon was buried, her grave was destroyed by Cromwell’s troops but in the 1800’s a national newspaper led a campaign and asked all women called Catherine to donate a penny to build a better memorial and now there’s a suitable place for a Queen of England. The people loved her when she was alive and the people love her still, hardly a day goes by that there isn’t some fresh flowers on her grave. We took a sprig of Rosemary sprig of rosemary from Catherine’s garden at Buckden and laid it on her grave. Kings College chapel Cambridge is my personal favourite single building left to us by Henry VIII. It was started 100 years before Henry but he finished it and I some style. It has the largest fan vaulted roof in the world and has the most fantastic stained glass windows. There is a guide book just for the windows. I could stay in the building for hours and when the organ is playing there is almost a sensory overload. There is evidence of two of Henry’s wives here, Anne Boleyn’s initials can be found carved in the provosts stall and Catherine Howard can be seen in one of the stained glass windows looking up at Henry. Her initials are also to be found high up on the great east window. We went into Trinity college chapel and were privileged to be allowed into the chapel built in 1555 and has some stained glass windows to Elizabeth, Mary, Edward VI and even Isaac Newton. He was the chair of Mathematics here. There is an apple tree a daughter descended from the original tree where Newton realised what gravity was. We ended the day in Windsor and our by now customary wander around a few hostelries.