I am getting excited – we are just a few days away from the publication of A Song of Sixpence, a new novel by Judith…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Month: February 2015
Just under a month after the death of Henry VIII, his nine-year old son Edward VI was crowned King of England. Edward was the son…
February 18, 1516 – birth of Mary I to Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Read about it on www.janetwertman.com
February 15, 1533 – Anne Boleyn has “a furious desire to eat apples.” Read about what this means on www.janetwertman.com
Catherine Howard was brought to the Tower of London on Friday, February 10th 1542, she was there when the Act of Attainder against her was…
February 7, 1542 marks an important point in the surprisingly complex legal case against Catherine Howard: the passage of the Bill of Attainder that declared…
On this day in 1521, Mary Boleyn married William Carey, a courtier and favorite of Henry VIII. Carey was both a Gentleman of the Privy…
