How white bed linen was stripped from royal bed to make fireplace

Guests staying at the Barratts of Tyn Rhyl hotel in Denbighshire have been advised that the fire that keeps them warm in the property's lounge may have been made from a royal bed.

According to the BBC, it is believed that Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon may once have lain in white bed linen on the wood bed that was later transformed into a fireplace.

The news provider explains that it is thought the hotel is the oldest in house in Rhyl and that the eye-catching, carved wooden fireplace surround was made from the headboard of the royal bed.

Writer Angharad Llwyd owned the property in the 1800s and it is likely the artefact was handed down through her family from her ancestor Pierce Griffith, Sergeant at Arms to King Henry VIII and usher to Catherine of Aragon.

Current owners David and Elvira Barratt revealed that a valuer had found that the woodwork dated back to the time of the Tudor monarch and the history of the guesthouse suggests it was once owned by the king, although there is no definite proof of this.

Henry VIII went on to marry five more times after his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which led to the country's Reformation.