Through the whole ceremony the distant booming of cannon was heard every minute from the batteries of the Tower.

The gentle Queen sleeps among her illustrious kindred in the southern aisle of the Chapel of Henry the Seventh.

[556] The affection with which her husband cherished her memory was soon attested by a monument the most superb that was ever erected to any sovereign.

No scheme had been so much her own, none had been so near her heart, as that of converting the palace at Greenwich into a retreat for seamen.

It had occurred to her when she had found it difficult to provide good shelter and good attendance for the thousands of brave men who had come back to England wounded after the battle of La Hogue.