Talk about nine lives!! The third Duke of Norfolk was the highest peer in the land after the king (or queen), and managed to cheat…
All Tudor, all the time...
Category: On This Day
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Yes, yes, this happened outside the Tudor Era (WAY outside the Tudor Era)…but bear with me and I will bring it around! 😉 So Becket…
Catherine was the youngest daughter of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille, the monarchs whose marriage created a dynastically unified Spain – and whose…
I use the term “finally” because of how long this process was! Remember – it was back in August that Mary had been caught plotting…
Full disclosure: I don’t really like the man. I made him the antagonist in The Path to Somerset, and found it really hard to convincingly…
