9 August 1588 – Elizabeth I’s Tilbury Speech
Elizabeth I Armada Portrait On the 9th August 1588 (old calendar) Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII and…
Tudor Events
8th August 1553 – Burial of Edward VI at Westminster Abbey
On this day in 1553, King Edward VI was buried in a white marble vault beneath the altar…
4 August 1557 – Burial of Anne of Cleves, Fourth Wife of Henry VIII
On 4th August 1557 merchant-taylor and diarist Henry Machyn recorded that there was a requiem mass for "my…
28 July 1540 – Henry VIII Marries Wife Number 5, Catherine Howard
On the 28th July 1540, Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, the woman he called his…
28 July 1540 – The Executions of Thomas Cromwell and Walter Hungerford
While Henry VIII was busy marrying wife number 5, his former chief minister Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex,…
19 July 1553 – Mary I Proclaimed Queen
On 19th July 1553, thirteen days after the death of her half-brother, Edward VI, Mary was proclaimed Queen…
The New Mary Rose Museum – A Review
A view of the Mary Rose Clare Cherry and her partner, David, visited the new Mary Rose Museum…