The Machinery Every Palace Used to Bury a Death
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And the machinery is always the same. A successor faction, a threat of pilgrimage, a shovel. In 1661, Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey, hanged, and thrown into a pit. The official history softened it. But the intent was clear: 'They dug up his bones and cast them into a pit, so that no one might make a pilgrimage to his grave.' Full video — The King Who Was Buried Twice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5UyOEIFN70
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