I feel so bad for this poor lady. Her life was pretty wonderful…until it wasn’t. Admittedly, she had a bumpy start. She was the oldest…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Category: On This Day
In March 1551, Edward had been king for four years. Somerset had been removed as Lord Protector, and John Dudley, Earl of Warwick (he wasn’t…
This Act, which claimed to be the way to reform monastic life in England, was actually the first step in what was to become its…
Elizabeth spent her entire life refusing proposals – and her very first experience shows that she mastered the art early. Of course she had a…
I hate to say it, but I can’t summon all that much sympathy for Henry Grey. Mary forgave him once for the treason of supporting…
Henry would be quite annoyed to know that his resting place in the Quire of St. George’s Chapel at Windsor is marked only by a…
This would have been such a difficult trip for poor Kitty Howard. After Parliament passed the Act of Attainder against her, officials came to get…
So there were many theories as to when Henry and Anne married. My favorite is propounded by Agnes Strickland – she gives several of the…
Henry VIII had been very protected as a youth – at least from age eleven on, after his older brother died and he moved up…
Louis XII was King of France from 1498 to 1515. Born in 1462, he was a contemporary of Henry VII of England (who was born…