Catherine Carey was the daughter of Mary Boleyn and therefore first cousin to Elizabeth I – but we don’t have quite as much certainty about…
All Tudor, all the time...
Author: janetwertman
While the Tudors might not have celebrated New Year’s day as the actual start of the new year, they did call it that and exchange…
Elizabeth Tudor was lucky enough to grow up with people who were fiercely loyal to her even though they had nothing to gain from it.…
Today, I am delighted to welcome Sam Mee to the blog. Sam is founder of the Antique Ring Boutique (https://antiqueringboutique.com/), based in London (hence the…
What better way to celebrate The Boy King’s fifth bookiversary? It is a BookBub Featured Deal in Australia, Canada, and the UK – and I…
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…
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…