This is a wild woman we don’t hear about enough. Talk about a woman who stirred up drama! Margaret Douglas was the daughter of Margaret…
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Category: On This Day
Catherine Carey was the daughter of Mary Boleyn and therefore first cousin to Elizabeth I – but we don’t have quite as much certainty about…
While the Tudors might not have celebrated New Year’s day as the actual start of the new year, they did call it that and exchange…
Elizabeth Tudor was lucky enough to grow up with people who were fiercely loyal to her even though they had nothing to gain from it.…
Amy Robsart’s death is one of the main enduring Tudor mysteries (right up there with who killed the princes in the Tower, and whether Catherine…
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…
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 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…