Westminster Abbey's effigies get a makeover for new museum

The richly clad wax figures, made to stand in place of the bodies of aristocracy at funerals, have been restored before going back on display next yearIn 1743, Catherine, Duchess of Buckingham, was taking no chances: long before her death, she had commissioned her own lifesize funeral effigy, dressed in her own clothes – as conservation work has recently revealed, layer upon layer of her own clothes.
The figure, with human hair and eyelashes, was made to stand by her grave in Westminster A