I am thrilled to be welcoming Amy McElroy to the blog – she just released her first book, Educating the Tudors, in which she delves…
Writer of Grants and Historical Fiction
Tag: Henry VIII
Finally! After years of fits and starts and discussions with potential narrators (including a Countess!), I decided the voice had to be mine. I found…
It would have been inconceivable to anyone on this day that Thomas Cromwell would be executed almost exactly four years later. But that’s for a…
Thomas Cranmer would become a central figure of the English Reformation, but that was not something anyone would have predicted for him! He was born…
The not-quite-eighteen-years-old Henry had come to the throne on April 22nd – and in just two months he had quickly established his authority. Within days,…
Let’s start with the context. In 1522, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was at the height of his power, and the richest man in the land, after…
This was Henry’s sixth and final wedding, and it was celebrated privately like those of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard (only the two…
Elizabeth’s funeral was worthy of her Gloriana legend, with its procession of more than a thousand people, all dressed in hoods and suits of black.…
Exactly when this will was signed and how accurate it is, is a matter of some contention. We know that Henry made changes to his…
Not technically Tudor-era, but to me Keith Michell was the ultimate Henry VIII. His portrayal is what drew me into the Tudors – indeed, his…