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Red fruit on a queen's grave, every January.
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In Peterborough Cathedral lies a queen Henry the Eighth cast aside. Every January, people still bring her pomegranates.
Katharine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, died at Kimbolton in January 1536 and was buried in what was then Peterborough Abbey on 29 January. Her tomb is now marked as one of the cathedral's best-known sights. Each January the cathedral and city museum hold a Katharine of Aragon festival with talks and tours, ending in a commemoration service at her tomb. Students, civic guests and the Spanish ambassador lay wreaths and pomegranates, the fruit that was Katharine's personal badge and a symbol of her Spanish homeland of Granada.