I am pleased to welcome Danielle Marchant to the blog – she has written a guest post for me in honor of her new novel,…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
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As Henry drew closer to death, the plots around him grew in intensity. After all, he was leaving behind him a nine-year old boy who…
So Somerset had already escaped charges of treason once – that time when he took Edward and fled to Windsor hoping to avoid Northumberland’s (then…
I am thankful for all of you, the people who read my blog and my books. Well, technically my “book” but the second one is…
First, a caution – this is the day most people BELIEVE Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five Theses to the door of the All Saints’ Church…
Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio was the legate appointed by Pope Clement V to hear Henry VIII’s annulment request case in England. The case, better known as…
Ah, the lucky one. As the daughter of Johann III, Duke of Juliers-Cleves, Anne was a pawn in the international marriage market from her early…
Um, actually no – and I corrected this in a later post (which you can read here). But I left this up because Charles Brandon…
Specifically, Henry said he felt old enough that “he doubted whether he should have any child by the Queen.” We know he said it because…
Anne Askew was an unfortunate pawn in Tudor politics. She was tortured (the only woman on record to have experienced this) and burned for heresy…
