Discover the Tudors Tour – Join me in September!
British History Tours launched this tour just before Christmas and I posted about it then, but I just…
2018
My book is number 2!
It wouldn't be quite right to say that I'm incredibly humbled by this - or perhaps I was…
8 January 1536 – Henry VIII celebrates the news of Catherine of Aragon’s death
On 7th January 1536, Henry VIII's first wife, Catherine of Aragon, died at Kimbolton Castle, where she had…
7 January 1536 – Death of Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII
On this day in history, 7th January 1536, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Catherine of Aragon, first…
5 January 1531 – You shall not remarry!
OK, so it wasn't Gandalf that said this, it was actually the pope - sorry! Yes, on this…
1 January 1540 – Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves have a disastrous first meeting
Anne of Cleves, or Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, had arrived in England on 27th December 1539, landing at Deal…