This was a major show of power by John Dudley, then Earl of Warwick. A way of really reminding Somerset how far he had fallen…
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Category: On This Day
When we think of coronations, we think of the ceremonial part of it: the twelve hours of ritual centered around the new sovereign sitting in…
An Esquire of the Body was a personal attendant to the King of England. There were six such Esquires, with a barber and a page,…
The Lord Chancellor was the most powerful man in England (after the sovereign, of course), so this was the ultimate triumph for a man as…
Margaret Pole was born into a world that turned on its head several times during her lifetime. When she was born, she was the niece…
This was a huge moment – Edward had died close to a month before and this was the first time Mary was coming to London…
Woof. This was the end to a tale of great hubris….hubris that almost succeeded. Back in February, Edward’s health was such that he started…
This was Henry’s sixth and final wedding, and it was celebrated privately like those of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard (only the two…
Part of me wants to say “goodbye and good riddance” and leave it at that: Philip of Spain was not a good husband to Mary…
William Carey was a favored courtier of Henry VIII’s, and actually his third cousin (William’s grandmother Eleanor Beaufort was cousin to Henry’s grandmother Margaret Beaufort).…
