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In 1565, fifteen-year-old Helena Snachenberg from Sweden became Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth the First. Helena must have been quite a girl, as she married a Marquess, and then a Sir Thomas. She died aged 86, leaving ninety-eight descendants! She and her Sir lie together in Salisbury cathedral. The cathedral has surprising memorials. AContinue reading “Oh Dear, oh dare, oh deer.”