Mary Stuart is an incredibly controversial character with a history of making bad decisions. She signed away carefully-negotiated Scottish rights in a secret addendum to…
All Tudor, all the time...
Author: janetwertman
While this may seem Tudor-adjacent, it really was an event with huge repercussions, occurring as it did less than a year into Elizabeth’s reign. Henri…
I’ve already written about Mary’s secret marriage to Brandon and touched upon their life together…but now I want to focus on the end of that…
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post for Anne’s execution but focused on what the event meant for Katherine Parr and the reformists…
The Field of the Cloth of Gold was the brainchild of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: an eighteen-day-long event intended to solidify the alliance between England and…
Yes, yes, I have already written about the wonderful pomp surrounding Anne Boleyn’s actual coronation – but the formalities began several days earlier – specifically,…
Somerset is a BookBub Featured Deal in Australia, Canada, India and the UK – and I have extended the discount to the rest of the…
Judith Arnopp has just released the first book in her new Henrician Chronicle – this one is A Matter of Conscience: The Aragon Years and…
Giovanni Michiel was the Venetian Ambassador to England during almost all of Mary’s reign, and on his departure in 1557, he prepared for his successor…
The wonderful Tony Riches has just released the second book in his Elizabethan series, and it looks to be a good one. Here’s the description:…
