On a cold and dreary day, I travelled to Gouda, near The Hague in the Netherlands to look at a church with some very impressive windows. I can hear you thinking, why are these windows so special? Well, they’ve survived for almost 500 years, and that’s quite impressive. Most of the church’s stained glass windows [read more]
Mary was the child who survived. After a difficult labour, Catherine of Aragon had given birth to a healthy daughter in the early morning of 18 February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia. Just a few days earlier news had arrived in London about Catherine’s father’s death, which had been deliberately kept from her. Her [read more]
Non-Fiction Charles River Editors – Bloody Mary: The Life and Legacy of England’s Most Notorious Queen (US & UK) Doran, Susan & Freeman, Thomas – Mary Tudor: Old and New Perspectives (US & UK) Duffy, Eamon – Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor (US & UK) Erickson, Carolly – Bloody Mary: The Life of Mary Tudor (US & UK) Froude, [read more]
Catherine of Aragon was born on 16 December 1485 as the daughter of Isabel of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon. She was their youngest and last child. She was considered as a bride for Arthur, Prince of Wales from an early age and the two were wed on 14 November 1501. They were at [read more]
The year 2016 is the 500th anniversary of the birth of England’s first undisputed Queen regnant, Mary I of England. History of Royal Women is going to celebrate this in style. We will begin next week with five articles dedicated to her, and after that, there will be at least one article every month on [read more]
The lovely people over at Head of Zeus provided me with a copy of ‘The King is Dead’, by Suzannah Lipscomb, which is admittedly not about a royal woman, but some were most definitely affected by it. ‘The King is Dead’ is about the last will and testament of King Henry VIII of England, who [read more]
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