Last week, I wrote of Cromwell’s arrest for treason, and shared the first pleading letter he sent to the King. Cromwell’s crime was religiously based:…
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Category: On This Day
Talk about blindsided. Thomas Cromwell was arrested during a Council meeting a Westminster. The coup was led by the Duke of Norfolk, head of the…
June 4, 1536 – Jane Seymour proclaimed Queen. A post focused on the telling, not the pageantry…
Ten days after she was formally betrothed to the King, Jane Seymour once again got into the royal barge in the early morning and was…
[Spoiler alert – this is not for the squeamish! The execution of Margaret Pole is one of the darkest marks in Henry VIII’s reign –…
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…
