[Spoiler alert – this is not for the squeamish! The execution of Margaret Pole is one of the darkest marks in Henry VIII’s reign –…
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Category: On This Day
The morning after Anne Boleyn’s execution, Jane Seymour and Henry VIII were formally betrothed at Hampton Court Palace. At first light, Jane dressed in her…
The night before her execution, Anne Boleyn said to have written a dirge, Oh Death, Rock Me Asleep. The authorship is not completely certain –…
May 8, 1536 – Sir Thomas Wyatt arrested. Read about it – and the compelling poem he wrote – on www.janetwertman.com
May 2, 1536 – Anne Boleyn arrested and brought to the Tower. Read more about it on www.janetwertman.com
April 30 was the day the trap snapped shut on Anne Boleyn: it was the day that Mark Smeaton was arrested and questioned – and…
April 24, 1536 – The Start of the Legal Case Against Anne Boleyn. There were many “beginning of the end” events, but this was the most sinister as it was the first legal one…Read about it on www.janetwertman.com
On this day in 1509, the not-quite-eighteen-year-old became Henry VIII. He took two actions very quickly. First, he married his older brother’s widow, Catherine of…
April 18, 1536 – Jane Seymour gets her own apartments. A very big day. Read about it on www.janetwertman.com
April 9, 1533 – A Deputation Informs Catherine of Aragon of her New Title. Not that she ever accepted it…Read more on www.janetwertman.com
