For more than a hundred years, Agnes Strickland was considered the ultimate source…but now we know better how she got a bunch of things wrong…
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Category: On This Day
This was actually a secret marriage that would get the couple thrown into the Tower, so let’s back up a little for context. Elizabeth was…
I have been focused on Elizabeth so much that I have not done a “King’s Great Matter” post in a while – but this was…
This was a move with huge implications: it prompted Essex’s rebellion, and opened the door for sweeping reforms. Before we get there, some context. Monopolies…
After Mary Stuart wrote her fateful letter (I did a separate post about it, you can read it here), Elizabeth had little choice but to…
Back in 2014, I wrote a post about this event, but since I focused on the importance of the event rather than its details, I…
This was such a huge time for England, the triumph of the people over an attempted coup – the only time since the Battle of…
Amyas Paulet is best known for having been Mary Stuart’s gaoler for the last two years of her life…but he was a lot more than…
Fifteen-year-old Francis II had become King of France two months earlier, upon the death of Henri II (killed in a jousting accident – read about…
Mary was in a tough place during her brother’s reign: her fierce Catholicism was increasingly at odds with Edward’s fervent Protestantism. While Somerset was Lord…
