Woof. John Dudley was an ambitious and talented man who rose from being the son of a disgraced traitor (his father Edmund Dudley, was executed…
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Category: On This Day
This was one of the greatest betrayals of Elizabeth’s life (and this was a woman who suffered a bunch of disappointments): Robert Dudley was the…
Henry VIII always had a romantic view of war. And after the death of Catherine Howard, he needed a new reason to feel young again.…
It strikes me that so many of my recent posts have been of ostensibly happy news hiding a sad future (I’m thinking specifically of the…
While births are generally happy things, they have to be viewed in light of subsequent events (heck, any Tudorphile will tell you that EVERYTHING must…
What a wild story. The 28-year old Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond and scion of the House of Lancaster, comes from France to claim the…
So today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Mary Rose. I started to write one of my usual blog posts, but nothing was…
This was a big deal. The two men had a major public fight in front of Henry, and their enmity would never be fully contained…
Henry VIII adored his illegitimate son Henry FitzRoy – the living proof that his failure to father an heir was not his own fault. People…
Does the name sound familiar? It should. This is one of those great stories that could only happen in Tudor times – well, that was…
