The meeting is a gesture of reconciliation on both sides, as Catholic archbishops lived at the palace until England, under Henry VIII, broke with Rome.
The Tradescants are buried in an ornate tomb outside St Mary's Church, beneath the walls of Lambeth Palace, the home of the Archbishops of Canterbury. (Next to them lies Captain Bligh of the Bounty.) In the early 1970s, when the Nicholsons made a pilgrimage to the Tradescant tomb, they were horrified to find it in poor shape and the church destined for demolition.