25 April – God will send unto Us heirs male – The Fall of Anne Boleyn
On 25th April 1536, King Henry VIII wrote letters to his ambassadors abroad and the content was very…
April 2021
20 Interesting Facts about Anne of Cleves
Anne of Cleves has rather unfairly gone down in history as "The Flanders Mare", the wife Henry VIII…
April 24 – The legal machinery begins – The Fall of Anne Boleyn
On this day in 1536, Sir Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII, set up two commissions…
George Boleyn versus Nicholas Carew
On this day in Tudor history, 23rd April, less than a month before he was executed, George Boleyn,…
The Act of Succession and its oath
On this day in Tudor history, on 20th April 1534, in the reign of King Henry VIII, prominent…
20 Interesting Facts about Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour was the third wife of King Henry VIII, the mother of King Edward VI and the…
Did Henry VIII and Francis I really wrestle?
Thank you to Leah for her excellent question regarding a scene from Showtime's "The Tudors" series in which…