Yes, yes, this is Tudor-adjacent – but it had a big effect on England as well. And it’s a great story… A quick recap on…
All Tudor, all the time...
Category: On This Day
While I think this marriage was overall a bad idea (indeed, in retrospect it would appear she could have chosen better…), I do love weddings.…
While this may seem Tudor-adjacent, it really was an event with huge repercussions, occurring as it did less than a year into Elizabeth’s reign. Henri…
I’ve already written about Mary’s secret marriage to Brandon and touched upon their life together…but now I want to focus on the end of that…
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post for Anne’s execution but focused on what the event meant for Katherine Parr and the reformists…
The Field of the Cloth of Gold was the brainchild of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey: an eighteen-day-long event intended to solidify the alliance between England and…
Yes, yes, I have already written about the wonderful pomp surrounding Anne Boleyn’s actual coronation – but the formalities began several days earlier – specifically,…
Even before Mark Smeaton’s arrest, Anne knew Henry was up to something: she asked her chaplain, Matthew Parker, to take care of Elizabeth if anything…
The Earldom of Essex was first created in the twelfth century by King Stephen – and in 1540, the title was a formidable symbol of…
Let me start by saying that the man had a rebellion named after him, so this outcome was kind of inevitable! I’ve already written a…
