What King married his mistress and had her crowned Queen two years after she died?

Question

What King married his mistress and had her crowned Queen two years after she died?

Answer 1

You forgot to tell how the king's wife crowned him upside the head with a glass ash tray before running off with his mistress. :-)

Answer 2

I think it was King Pedro of Portugal.  The lady was Ines de Castro.  He was the Prince, when his father had his mistress stabbed to death.  When he came to power he had the men who killed her executed by having their hearts pulled out of their live bodies,  Then he had the 2 year dead, skeletal body of his mistress dug up, and he married her and had her crowned Queen.  He sat her in the throne chair nest to him, with a crown on her skull, and had all the nobles come up and kiss her skeletal fingers.

Answer 3

Henry VIII

Answer 4

Inês Pérez de Castro (1325 – January 7, 1355) was a Galician noblewoman, lover and posthumously declared lawful wife of the Portuguese King Pedro I of Portugal, and therefore Queen of Portugal. Inês came to Portugal in 1340 as a maid of princess Constance of Castile, recently married to prince Pedro, the heir to the throne. The prince fell in love with her and started to neglect his lawful wife, endangering the already feeble relations with Castile.

Constance of Castile died in 1349. Afonso IV tried several times to arrange for his son to be remarried, but Pedro refused to take a wife other than Inês, who was not deemed eligible to be queen. Afonso IV banished Inês from the court after Constance's death, but Pedro remained with her. After several attempts to keep the lovers apart, Afonso IV ordered Inês's death. Pedro became king of Portugal in 1357. He then stated that he had secretly married Inês, who was consequently the lawful queen, although his word was, and still is, the only proof of the marriage.

He had Inês's body exhumed and forced the entire court to swear allegiance to it as queen. She was later buried at the Monastery of Alcobaça where her coffin can still be seen, opposite Pedro's so that, according to the legend, at the Last Judgment Pedro and Inês can look at each other as they rise from their graves. Both marble coffins are exquisitely sculpted with scenes from their lives and a promise by Pedro that they would be together até ao fim do mundo (until the end of the world).

Answer 5

Henry VIII--he thought with his little crown at all times