This was a move with huge implications: it prompted Essex’s rebellion, and opened the door for sweeping reforms. Before we get there, some context. Monopolies…
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After Mary Stuart wrote her fateful letter (I did a separate post about it, you can read it here), Elizabeth had little choice but to…
This letter was sent a little less than a month before Elizabeth acceded to the throne and is a fascinating glimpse into the relationship she…
Back in 2014, I wrote a post about this event, but since I focused on the importance of the event rather than its details, I…
This was such a huge time for England, the triumph of the people over an attempted coup – the only time since the Battle of…
Amyas Paulet is best known for having been Mary Stuart’s gaoler for the last two years of her life…but he was a lot more than…
Fifteen-year-old Francis II had become King of France two months earlier, upon the death of Henri II (killed in a jousting accident – read about…
This is a letter that illustrates one of those Tudor wheel-of-fortune turns. Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury, was inclined to the old religion, and…
Mary was in a tough place during her brother’s reign: her fierce Catholicism was increasingly at odds with Edward’s fervent Protestantism. While Somerset was Lord…
Wait – what?? We all know that it was on August 22 that the Battle of Bosworth took place, where Henry Tudor defeated Richard III…
