Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial

This guide to the Royal Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial outside Madrid opens with Philip II dying in 1598 in a monk's-cell of a room, crippled by gout, having cut a hole in the wall so he could watch the altar below from his bed. It follows what happens to a Spanish king's body after death here, carried first into a hidden, windowless chamber called the pudridero, where flesh must fall from bone before the remains can be moved. Listen for how long that wait can take, and what finally follows it.