I’ve written other posts about the legal arguments that Mary would use in this trial, also about the letter she wrote to Anthony Babington that…
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Tag: On This Day in History
Margaret Douglas was the daughter that Margaret Tudor bore shortly after marrying her second husband, Archibald Douglas, the Sixth Earl of Angus. Margaret Douglas would…
Normally, births are a very happy thing…but giving birth to the boy who for just a little while would arguably second in line to the…
Several years ago, someone explained to me that “Bless your heart” is actually a savage insult in the American South. Today’s post is a letter…
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…
Let’s back up a little for context: four months earlier, Mary’s husband (Henry, Lord Darnley) had been murdered at Kirk O’Field, and many people believed…
There is so much to unpack here… Elizabeth had been brought to the Tower in March, accused of participating in Thomas Wyatt’s treasonous rebellion. Confined…
Giovanni Michiel served as Venetian Ambassador to England during almost all of Mary’s reign. When he left England in 1557, about six months before Mary…
On this day, Nicholas Carew was named to the Order of the Garter instead of George Boleyn. Today we know that this happened less than…
Acquittals never happened when treason was involved! At worst, you might get a single juror abstaining, and that would still be a pretty big deal:…
