At London’s Charing Cross underground station there is a most surprising sight. Spread along the curved wall of the Northern Line platform is a full-length (100 yards), black and white mural depicting the design, preparation and assembly of Edward I’s memorial cross to Queen Eleanor, his beloved wife of 36 years who died at Harby 6 miles west of Lincoln 28 November 1290 [1]. She had been in poor health for some time and was taken ill with a ‘slow fever’ while accompanying Edward on a tour of the north. Her embalmed body was escorted by the king in ‘great state’ to Westminster Abbey from Lincoln, where her heart and other organs had already been removed. Edward gave orders that memorial crosses should be erected at each overnight stop on the 172-mile journey south.
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