Written by Sylvia Barbara Soberton George Wyatt wrote the first ever biography of Anne Boleyn, entitled The Life of the Virtuous Christian and Renowned Queen Anne Boleigne. George was the grandson of poet Thomas Wyatt, who is believed to have had a romantic relationship with Anne before she caught Henry VIII’s eye. George Wyatt claimed…
Written by Dr. James Taffe Edward VI died on 6 July 1553. In his will, the boy king nominated Lady Jane Grey as his successor. A few days later, on 10 July, Jane ‘was convayed by water to the Tower of London, and there received as queene’. In the royal barge, it was observed, there…
Title: London in the Time of the Tudors Author: Sir Walter Besant Public Domain Listen to PART ONE here: SCRIPT Hi, I’m historian Christine Morgan and welcome to A Brief History. On this episode we continue the story of Henry VII from the book London in the Time of Tudors. In part one we left…
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Ten things you didn’t know about Gertrude Courtenay, Marchioness of Exeter Written by Sylvia Barbara Soberton Great by birth, greater by marriage. Gertrude’s father, William Blount, Fourth Baron Mountjoy, was an influential member of the Tudor court, a respected humanistic scholar and patron of learning. He served as chamberlain in the household of Queen Katharine…
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Written by Dr. Steven Veerapen Historically, Anna (or Anne) of Denmark has not received a great press. To too many, she is an unknown quantity – a name, glimpsed as an adjunct to King James: a non-speaking background figure, literally, seen in dramas as varied as 2017’s Gunpowder and Disney’s direct-to-video Pocahontas 2. She has,…
According to the last will and testament of Henry VIII, the throne of England should have been inherited by the descendants of Lady Katherine Grey when Henry’s younger daughter, Elizabeth I, died on 24 March 1603. A somewhat obscure figure in Tudor history, Katherine was the second daughter of Henry, duke of Suffolk and his wife Frances,…
