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An early edition of Prayers or

Meditations, written in 1545

by Henry VIII’s last queen,

Katherine Parr, and displayed

at Sudeley Castle

Sudeley commands extensive

grounds, lying alongside the

ancient village of Winchcombe

in the Cotswold Hills

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of Katherine Parr on

her tomb in St Mar y’s

Church at Sudeley

Castle, where

she died in 1548

from complications

following childbirth