#Tudor history enthusiast w/ a focus on #ElizabethI | Avid reader, #AgathaChristie is my favorite author | Art lover, esp. #Holbein’s work | Fashion aficionado.
Hey everyone! I’ve just launched my website all about #Tudor#history, with a special focus on #ElizabethI—her life before the throne & other fascinating Tudor tidbits. Check it out and let me know what you think!
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Catherine Howard’s only surviving letter. It’s written in her own hand and addressed to Thomas Culpepper, her alleged lover. It’s signed ‘yours as long as life endures, Katheryn’. On display in the National Archives’ brand new exhibition, Love Letters, which opens on Saturday #loveletters
Brrrr-illiant views! 🥶 The snowy weather arrived Hillsborough Castle and Gardens earlier in the week ❄️ Check out at these wintry #PalacePhotos 📸
Will you be visiting one of the palaces this weekend?
📷 Photos taken by an HRP Member and Gardens Team.
When was Anne Boleyn born? 1501? 1507? Or somewhere in between?
And why does it matter?
Explore the theories with me in my full video on the Anne Boleyn Files YouTube channel and share your opinion.
#AnneBoleyn#TudorHistory#HistoryDebate#WomenInHistory
#OTD 8 Nov 1543
#LetticeKnollys, granddaughter of #MaryBoleyn was born at Rotherfield Greys
Serving cousin #ElizabethI she'd marry 3 times
1st Walter Devereux
2nd Elizabeth’s favourite #RobertDudley incurring her wrath resulting in her banishment!
Finally Sir Christopher Blount
I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
Your first look at AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS on Netflix, following a determined young aristocrat's search for answers when a lavish country house party ends in murder. Arrives 15th Jan
#OTD 14 Oct 1586
#MaryQueenofScots trial began at Fotheringhay Castle
Intending to boycott it she relented, #WilliamCecil said it would go ahead with or without her
Listening as #ElizabethI's Court put their case, was she
oblivious to her fate?
Herstory https://t.co/K2MtVY32gF
Born on June 28, 1491, Henry VIII, son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, would become one of England’s most famous and controversial monarchs. His reign transformed the kingdom religiously, politically, and culturally—most notably through the historic break with Rome.
Queen behaviour 💪 Katherine Parr was Henry VIII's sixth and final queen 👑
She was an energetic and passionate Queen Consort — a published author, loving stepmother, and outspoken supporter of the English Reformation 📚
🎥 Watch to find out more...
#WomensHistoryMonth
Anne Neville was born on June 11, 1456, at Warwick Castle. Her life was profoundly shaped by the Wars of the Roses, and she is widely considered a key example of how noblewomen were used as pawns to forge alliances, secure loyalty, and advance power in 15th century England.
#OTD in 1553. The Imperial Ambassador wrote ‘My Lord Guildford Dudley, recently married to Suffolk’s eldest, one of his brothers, the Admiral and other lords and ladies, recently fell very ill after eating some salad at the Duke of Northumberland’s' #LadyJaneGrey#Tudor#History