Part of me wants to say “goodbye and good riddance” and leave it at that: Philip of Spain was not a good husband to Mary…
All Tudor, all the time...
Author: janetwertman
William Carey was a favored courtier of Henry VIII’s, and actually his third cousin (William’s grandmother Eleanor Beaufort was cousin to Henry’s grandmother Margaret Beaufort).…
I posted last month about the exciting search for a Tudor banqueting house that would be going on at Sudeley Castle during the last two…
This was about the most brilliantly timed visit ever. England and France were getting ready for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, which would…
A banqueting house was a “separate pavilion-like building reached through the gardens from the main residence.” They became very popular during the Tudor era –…
This is a guest post from the wonderful Brigitte Webster, founder and owner of the amazing Tudor & 17th Century Experience, an exquisite living history…
Elizabeth’s funeral was worthy of her Gloriana legend, with its procession of more than a thousand people, all dressed in hoods and suits of black.…
The Holy Maid of Kent was Sister Elizabeth Barton, an English Catholic nun who claimed to have received divine revelations that predicted future events. Thousands…
It has been exactly three years since the publication of Jane the Quene. Back then I had the blog and the book and was super…
Marguerite de Navarre was born Marguerite d’Angouleme, the daughter of Louise of Savoy and Charles, Count of Angouleme. She was elder sister to the man…
