Margaret of France – The flower of the French
Margaret of France was born around 1279 as the youngest child of Philip III of France and his second wife, Marie of Brabant. She was […]
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Review: The Crown Dissected: An Analysis of the Netflix Series The Crown Seasons 1, 2 and 3
Most of us have watched Netflix’s popular series The Crown, and if you’ve not watched it, you’ve at least heard about it from someone. It’s […]
Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part two)
Read part one here. By the late 1530s, Margaret was back in London and a frequent guest of Anne Stanhope, Lady Hertford, who was the […]
Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part one)
On 7 October 1515 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, gave birth to her seventh child, though the first (and as it would turn out only) […]
Catherine Parr – The reluctant Queen (Part two)
Read part one here. Their wedding took place on 12 July 1543 at Hampton Court, and Catherine was now Queen of England. Always a practical […]
Catherine Parr – The reluctant Queen (Part one)
Catherine Parr was born in 1512 as the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal and Maud Green. She was their second child but the […]