One of the most notorious Kings of England was King Henry VIII, the 6 wifed King who even executed two of his own wives. But Henry VIII's health throughout his life was awful and shocking, and he would become ill around 1547. He had suffered with smallpox and gout and was very large and obese and he would then die inside the Palace of Whitehall. Henry VIII would request that when he died he would want to be buried with his third wife Jane Seymour, inside of St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. This was the burial place of many medieval Kings and Queens, and Henry VIII commissioned a huge tomb to be built but this would never be finished.

Henry VIII was buried inside of a small vault under the Quire of St George's Chapel, and this was a very modest and small burial site despite his reputation in History. But this burial site would be disturbed a number of times as Charles I the executed King was interred next to Henry VIII and the coffin of Henry VIII had been disturbed and broken.