It's not too difficult, to establish that the above three, would feature prominently in a compendium considering who Britain's greatest monarchs are. Queen Victoria ruled over such extensive lands that it was said during her reign that the sun never set on the British empire. Henry VIII, is perhaps best described as a type of the Eglon, who was to come. In addition to his heavily rotund figure, Henry Tudor was the genius who bravely broke away from Rome for reasons that are best described as what shall we say... dodgy. Elizabeth I is renowned for her triumphant reign, at a time when women were mostly seen and rarely heard. Ok, enough about their achievements - most of that is fairly well known... I wonder though if you know anything about the final moments leading to the deaths of any of these three monarchs? Recently I came across the following:
When the Archbishop arrived, he prayed for a long time. As he arose from his kneeling at the end of his prayer, a gesture from the bed forced him down again. He prayed for another long stretch, and as he did so, one thin hand reached for his. He held it, as an earlier Archbishop, had held the hand of the dying ________________. The ___________ slipped into a coma from which ______ did not awake.
Can you fill in the missing blanks? (Clue: two of the above Monarchs feature)
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