This was a woman with some ups and downs in her life. It started up: Frances was the daughter of Mary Tudor and Charles Brandon,…
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Tag: On This Day in History
This was a major show of power by John Dudley, then Earl of Warwick. A way of really reminding Somerset how far he had fallen…
An Esquire of the Body was a personal attendant to the King of England. There were six such Esquires, with a barber and a page,…
I love Catherine’s letters. This is a great one, especially for what it says about her… Let’s just situate ourselves a moment, understand what was…
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…
Part of me wants to say “goodbye and good riddance” and leave it at that: Philip of Spain was not a good husband to Mary…
This was about the most brilliantly timed visit ever. England and France were getting ready for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, which would…
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.…
In the Tudorverse, Ferdinand of Aragon’s importance stems from his being the father of Henry VIII’s first wife, Catherine of Aragon – so my focus…
Yes, this was across the proverbial pond from the Tudors, but Catherine de’ Medici, as Queen of France, influenced the Tudor world the way Francis…
