I’m delighted to be one of the stops on Heather R. Darsie’s blog tour for her new biography of Anne of Cleves, one of the least-studied of Henry VIII’s six wives. Over to Heather: Anna of Cleves Meets Henry VIII: An Excerpt By Heather R. Darsie I have always been intrigued by the claims that […]
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Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year! Owing to my deadlines for my books, I will probably be blogging very sporadically, if at all, until I have met them. I did, however, want to leave you with a little tidbit, plus an exciting discovery. In 1536, Henry VIII and his queen, Jane Seymour, spent Christmas
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It’s been a long time since Isabella, Edward II’s queen, has paid a visit to this blog. In the early days, she used to stop by all of the time! Anyway, I was sure that a fashionable French lady like Isabella wouldn’t miss the chance to be on Cosmopolitan, and here she is! And here,
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In May 1510, Henry VIII is supposed to have strayed from the marital bed of Catherine of Aragon, taking as his partner Anne, Lady Hastings, a sister of Edward Stafford, Duke of Buckingham. Indeed, book after book confidently asserts that Anne was Henry’s mistress, at least for a short time. Anne was the younger daughter
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According to many books and websites, Katherine Howard, standing on the scaffold on February 13, 1542, pronounced, “I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Thomas Culpeper.” Myth or fact? The story that Katherine Howard said the words above comes from the anonymous Chronicle of King Henry VIII, better known to
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