On 1st May 1536, the annual May Day joust took place at the Tudor royal court. This year, it was at Greenwich Palace.
The king wasn’t jousting as he’d had a scary accident back in that January, so the challengers were led by George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, Queen Anne Boleyn’s brother, and the defenders by Sir Henry Norris, the king’s groom of the stool and good friend. Everything seemed normal at first, but something was going on and very soon these two men would find themselves in the Tower…
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