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…
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Janet Wertman Posts
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…
We have a wonderful new addition to the Tudorverse – Martha Jean Johnson has just released The Queen’s Musician, the story of Mark Smeaton (!).…
I am thrilled to announce the first book in my Regina Trilogy, Nothing Proved, is out today, and available through all the usual suspects (sorry,…
The wonderful Tony Riches has just released the final installment in his Elizabethan Series. He came onto my YouTube channel, Too Much Tudor, to talk…
First, I have neglected the blog for some time, and I apologize but my “On this Day” posts have covered just about all the days,…
Elizabeth Tudor was crowned Queen of England on January 15, 1559 – the day John Dee had determined was the most auspicious of the entire…
Recently, a reader came across a post I had done about Tudor archery and reached out to me. While she reassured me that I had…
I am thrilled to be welcoming Amy McElroy back to the blog – she was here right after she released her first book (Educating the…
Alessandro Farnese was an Italian nobleman who served as Pope Paul III between 1534 and 1549 – a term that inevitably made him Henry VIII’s…
