This is a guest post from Stanley Antonisson – a man who for years has been adding fascinating comments to my posts. Stanley is a…
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There is a dizzying amount to unpack in order to tell this story! #Onthisday, Henry Howard (the Earl of Surrey) and his wife (Frances de…
Henry Carey is a man whose parentage has been debated for five hundred years. His mother was Mary Boleyn, that part’s easy. But his father…not…
While technically the term “coronation” refers to the placing of a crown upon a monarch’s head, the moment of the anointing is so important that…
This is a guest post from David Field, a writer of historical fiction who is coming out with six Tudor-era novels this year (for you…
Essex, Essex, Essex. Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, is a man who provokes that kind of head shaking (like Thomas Seymour after Katherine Parr…
Before dying on January 7, Catherine had sent Henry a final letter and signed it “Catherine the Quene.” Her burial was Henry’s chance to refute…
In the Tudorverse, Ferdinand of Aragon’s importance stems from his being the father of Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon – so my focus…
Okay, so there have been two posts leading up to this: December 12 – Surrey Arrested, and January 12 -Norfolk Throws Surrey Under the Bus.…
Yes, this was across the proverbial pond from the Tudors, but Catherine de’ Medici, as Queen of France, influenced the Tudor world the way Francis…