Berengaria of Navarre's 'cursed' tomb to be restored

Renovation plan is latest event in peripatetic history of remains of wife of Richard I

For centuries, a statue of Berengaria of Navarre, wife of Richard the Lionheart, has been in search of a final resting place.

Known as the only English queen never to have set foot in the country, the pious Berengaria died in 1230. Cistercian monks honoured her by carving her figure in stone for her tomb and placing it in l'Epau Abbey, near Le Mans, which she had founded the previous year.