Is it true that King Henry VIII's body was moved to another grave but it exploded due to being so fat ?

Question

Heard somewhere that the heat outside made him spontaneously combust or something? He exploded from being so fat and his bits went all over the road?

Answer 1

No. Henry VIII passed away inside Whitehall Palace in London, and was buried in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, next to his wife Jane Seymour. He requested to be buried next to his third wife, Jane, the only woman who had bore him the son he desired. His grave remains where he was buried til this day and was never moved.

Answer 2

hahahaaa omg. I will never be able to watch The Tudors again.

Answer 3

"When Henry VIII died ... he was a mass of rotten flesh.  He died at Whitehall and his huge carcass was put into a lead coffin and taken in procession through the streets of London and reached Syon House at twilight.  It was put down in Syon Chapel, and there a horrific event took place.  According to a contemporary account:

... the leaden coffin being cleft by the shaking of the carriage, the pavement of the church was wetted with Henry's blood.  In the morning came plumbers to solder the coffin, under whose feet was seen a dog creeping and l*****g up the King's blood.

The story gained wide circulation and people remembered Friar Peto's denunciation of the king from the pulpit of Greenwich Church four years previously, in which the bold friar compared Henry with Ahab, and told him to his face 'that the dogs would, in like manner, l**k his blood'.

Henry was buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor, and had a large marble sarcophagus built over the burial spot.  Today, however, Henry's burial place is marked only by a small memorial plaque on the floor.  His sarcophagus had to be moved in the 18th century when George III ordered a new enlarged vault to be made under the floor of the chapel, large enough to contain 48 coffins.

Oddly enough, Henry VIII's sarcophagus was never put back in its rightful place, but was commandeered in the next century and is now the tomb of Vice-Admiral the Viscount Nelson in St Paul's in London."

However, something awful happened to William the Conqueror's body; he had grown fat in old age:

"The funeral was disrupted by the outbreak of a fire. After extinguishing it, the pallbearers tried to cram the king's bloated corpse into a too-small sarcophagus. The body exploded, creating a horrible smell that sent mourners running for the exits. Over the ensuing centuries William's tomb was twice desecrated by French rebels -- an ignoble end for one of history's greatest conquerors."

http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/England/Nor...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_a...

Answer 4

a dead body, is a body that is no longer functioning. I would assume when he died his body remained the way it was at the time of death.

so there is no way that it would have been exploded unless someone stuffed dynomite down his throat