Talk about blindsided. Thomas Cromwell was arrested during a Council meeting a Westminster. The coup was led by the Duke of Norfolk, head of the…
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June 4, 1536 – Jane Seymour proclaimed Queen. A post focused on the telling, not the pageantry…
Ten days after she was formally betrothed to the King, Jane Seymour once again got into the royal barge in the early morning and was…
[Spoiler alert – this is not for the squeamish! The execution of Margaret Pole is one of the darkest marks in Henry VIII’s reign –…
The morning after Anne Boleyn’s execution, Jane Seymour and Henry VIII were formally betrothed at Hampton Court Palace. At first light, Jane dressed in her…
The night before her execution, Anne Boleyn said to have written a dirge, Oh Death, Rock Me Asleep. The authorship is not completely certain –…
May 16, 1536 – Kingston Letter to Cromwell. His earnestness makes it so chilling….
May 8, 1536 – Sir Thomas Wyatt arrested. Read about it – and the compelling poem he wrote – on www.janetwertman.com
May 6, 1536 :To the King from the Lady in the Tower. A must-read. “But if you have already determined of me, and that not only my death, but an infamous slander must bring you the joying of your desired happiness, then I desire of God that He will pardon your great sin herein, and likewise my enemies, the instruments thereof.”
From “And I am in such a perplexity, that my mind is clean amazed: for I never had better opinion in woman than I had in her” to “I am exceedingly sorry that such faults can be proved by the Queen” in only three paragraphs….
