Hans Holbein at the Tudor Court The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace 10th November 2023 – 14th April 2024 The Royal Collection Trust is the holder of one of the world most comprehensive collections of work by the German painter, Hans Holbein the Younger. This exhibition explores work created for members of the Tudor court and…
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by Sylvia Barbara Soberton Anne Boleyn spent seven years at the French court. She served as maid of honour to Henry VIII’s younger sister Mary Tudor, who married Louis XII in October 1514. Upon Louis’s death Mary hastily married Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and left France. Anne, however, stayed at the French court and…
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Hunting the Falcon, (release dates Bloomsbury UK 14th September: Harper Collins USA 24th October 2023) the latest book by eminent historians, John Guy and Julia Fox, takes the unusual step of beginning with Queen Anne climbing the scaffold on the morning of 19th May 1536. This is an insightful study of the backstories of the…
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June 23rd and 24th 2024The Tudor Manor at Cadhay House, Exeter, Devon, Englandwolfhallweekend.com Tickets Here Fans of all things Tudor will be thrilled to know that a weekend conference dedicated to the late Dame Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy will be held next summer at one of the best-preserved private Tudor manor houses…
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by Heather R. Darsie, JD For decades, if not centuries, it has been assumed that Henry VIII of England and Anna of Cleves never consummated their marriage. The Secret Council that met to devise a way for Henry to have an annulment of his marriage to Anna, rather than a divorce, knew that they had…
by Heather R. Darsie Anna of Cleves died in July 1557, having reached her forty-second birthday weeks before. Curiously, in 1558, a woman who possessed Anna’s signet ring showed up at the court of Anna’s nephew, John Frederick the Middle. She had an interesting story for the young man, “In December 1558, John Frederick received…
