This was such a huge time for England, the triumph of the people over an attempted coup – the only time since the Battle of…
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Tag: On This Day in History
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…
Wait – what?? We all know that it was on August 22 that the Battle of Bosworth took place, where Henry Tudor defeated Richard III…
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.…
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…
To really understand Clement’s threat to excommunicate Henry, we need to place it in its proper place some four years into the whole “King’s Great…
The last time I wrote about Jane Seymour’s death was back in 2014 – and I don’t really have a huge amount to add on…
