Symbolism in Elizabeth’s portraits has been there all along, but some of us have chosen not to see it until now. It wasn’t until I recently watched a documentary that talked about the symbolism in Elizabeth’s “Rainbow” portrait that I started looking for them. In this article I will cover three portraits with obvious symbols.…
Guest article written by Wendy J. Dunn There is one thing I rediscover over and over in my research of the Tudors: “The past is another country; they do things differently there”(Hartley 1997, p.5). Yes – the people of the past lived very differently to us. As a writer, I am fascinated by these differences…
From 1461 to 1603 there were three Elizabeths with the title of Queen – granted two were Queen consorts and one was Queen regnant, but regardless, for the sake of this post they were all queens. Queen Elizabeth Woodville (c. 1437 – 1492) – the consort of King Edward IV Queen Elizabeth of York (1466 –…
Guest Article by: JoAnn Spears Dishing with the Tudors: My adventures in Renaissance comedy I am one of those people who ‘reads out’ a subject or author of interest. That took some doing with Jean Plaidy’s canon of eighty-odd historical fiction novels. Having started in on the task at the age of twelve, with The…
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Guest article by Karlie It was in the early hours of the morning on September 21st 1578, when a woman of 34 years and a man of 46 years were joined together in holy matrimony. The setting of the ceremony was idyllic: at a country manor called Wanstead Hall, in Essex. The bride was dressed…
We know Queen Elizabeth I never married, but do we truly understand why? Imagine being the daughter of a king who couldn’t settle on a wife, and then going from Princess to Lady overnight. Elizabeth’s mother, Anne Boleyn only had a couple of years with her young daughter. Elizabeth most likely had no memory of…
