The funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth of York) in 1503. Etching with engraving, 1784.

Elizabeth of York (1466-1503), wife of Henry VII (1485-1509). "The queen's last pregnancy proved fatal. Her surgeon Master Robert was hastily summoned on 22 January, the baby Katherine was born prematurely at the Tower on 2 February 1503, and Elizabeth died nine days later on 11 February, her thirty-seventh birthday. Less than a year previously Henry's court astrologer had forecast that she would live to be at least eighty, and in humanist circles her death became a paradigm of the fallibility of astrology. She was buried at Westminster Abbey, her funeral expenses amounting to £2800. The effigy carried in her funeral procession survives, but it is carved in wood rather than based on a death mask and gives little sense of the queen's appearance. Her portrait survives only in later copies, which suggest that she may have been rather chubby-faced. ... Contemporaries were apparently united in their admiration of her, and the narrative of her funeral describes her as 'one of the most gracious and best beloved princesses in the world'"-Oxford dictionary of national biography