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…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Category: On This Day
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…
On the one hand it was a bit strange to make such a big deal out of opening Parliament given that Henry had closed the…
This was quite a day for Cardinal Wolsey! He really thought he was golden right about now…. A bit of context: in April 1528 (more…
There were two key bodies that offered opportunities to influence the King: the Privy Chamber and the Privy Council. The gentlemen of the Privy Chamber…
This was the day that Sir Thomas More knew that he did not have long to live. Well, in truth he would have guessed it…