Westminster Abbey
About Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England. Since 1066, it has been the location of the coronations of 40 English and British monarchs and a burial site for 18 English, Scottish, and British monarchs. At least 16 royal weddings have taken place at the abbey since 1100.
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In 1950, four Scottish students managed to break into Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day and steal it back, but it sounds hilarious. They broke in, and according to one of the guys, they went in and it weighs 25 stones.
from 356: No Such Thing As Potter The Great, 2021-01-15 at 00:37:43 · read transcript
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Maybe it could have been truish because when Cromwell's head got put on the spike, there was a big rumour around that actually it wasn't his head and that they'd mistakenly got on the wrong one and it was probably some old King of England. They didn't specify which one it was because he was originally buried. Was it in Westminster Abbey, I think? There was loads of other kings there and they thought that they dug up the wrong thing and just put an old king's head there.
450: No Such Thing As A Deep Drawer, 2022-10-28 · listen
Yeah. This was 200 years between. 200 years between, yeah. He wrote this in his diary. It was Shrove Tuesday, 1669. She was buried in Westminster Abbey. She had an alabaster and all that sort of stuff. A lot of attacks happened on. I think it was Henry VIII, got rid of the alabaster, didn't like the idea of her. Her coffin, her crypt was still there.
No Such Thing As Floating Vaseline, 2020-05-29 · listen
Yeah. Not Orlando. Way. So he... Wow. He was famous at the time. He was the organist at Westminsterrabby. He was eventually named Virginalist to the King. That was a story he was called, that was it? Fertrchnell being a kind of piano, obviously. Do we know how the song were? Sadly, I don't think we do. They're pretty sure that he came up with jingles for corn cutters as well, as a kind of sideline.
No Such Thing As Jenga Cop, 2023-11-23 · listen
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