By June 24th, 1540, Henry VIII had made up his mind and was ready to act. He would never accept the marriage to Anne of…
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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:…
June 15, 1540 – Cranmer’s Letter Defending Cromwell. “[W]ho shall your Grace trust hereafter, if you might not trust him?”
On June 13, 1536, the Lady Mary finally submitted to her father, formally accepting the invalidity of her mother’s marriage to the King and her…
On June 12 (two days after his arrest), Thomas Cromwell wrote his first letter to Henry VIII from his cell in the Tower. It was…
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…
