Amy Robsart’s death is one of the main enduring Tudor mysteries (right up there with who killed the princes in the Tower, and did Catherine…
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Talk about nine lives!! The third Duke of Norfolk was the highest peer in the land after the king (or queen), and managed to cheat…
Earlier this week, I uploaded a post about the birth of Robert Dudley, Jr. that mentioned a letter that Leicester sent to a lady who…
Douglas Howard was the most famous woman you likely never heard of. As the daughter of William Howard, Baron Effingham, the fifteen-year-old Douglas was given…
This month truly assembled Mary Tudor’s finest hours. Let’s set the stage for a bit of context. Mary’s younger brother, Edward VI, had been King…
We have a wonderful new addition to the Tudorverse – Martha Jean Johnson has just released The Queen’s Musician, the story of Mark Smeaton (!).…
I am thrilled to announce the first book in my Regina Trilogy, Nothing Proved, is out today, and available through all the usual suspects (sorry,…
The wonderful Tony Riches has just released the final installment in his Elizabethan Series. He came onto my YouTube channel, Too Much Tudor, to talk…
First, I have neglected the blog for some time, and I apologize but my “On this Day” posts have covered just about all the days,…
Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen of England on January 15, 1559 – the day John Dee had determined was the most auspicious of the entire…
