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Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I – Queen against the odds (Part three)

Monday, 21 September 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. One of Elizabeth’s first acts was to appoint Sir William Cecil as her Principal Secretary of State, and they would form a unique partnership over the years. On 23 November 1558, Elizabeth rode into London and moved into the Tower on 28 November. She moved again a week later, to Somerset [read more]

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Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth I – The years of waiting (Part two)

Monday, 14 September 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. Roger Ascham replaced William Grindal as Elizabeth’s tutor when William died in 1548, and he remained as her full-time tutor for about two years. After this period, he continued to teach her, but it was not on a daily basis. After she became Queen, he wrote of her, “From the age [read more]

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Anne Neville

Margaret Plantagenet – A traitor’s daughter (Part two)

Friday, 21 August 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. Margaret threw herself into renovating and commissioning new residences, like Warblington Castle. From a later inventory, we know that over 73 servants worked at Warblington Castle alone. She proudly displayed her arms on the windows of her properties. Her influence at court grew even more significant when she was chosen to [read more]

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Anne Neville

Margaret Plantagenet – A traitor’s daughter (Part one)

Thursday, 20 August 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Margaret Plantagenet was born on 14 August 1473 at Farleigh Castle near Bath as the daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and Isabel Neville. Her mother was one of the greatest heiresses of her time while her father was the younger brother of King Edward IV of England. An elder sibling was stillborn or died [read more]

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Margaret Douglas

Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part three)

Sunday, 5 April 2020, 0:00 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. In early 1557, Margaret lost the father she had not seen for at least three years. He left Margaret nothing in his will, and the title passed to his nephew David. Margaret, however, maintained that she was her father’s heir and from now on signed her name as “Margaret Lennox and [read more]

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Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part two)

Saturday, 4 April 2020, 6:00 Moniek Bloks 1

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 wife of Jane Seymour’s brother Edward. With Jane now dead and a new Queen soon arriving in England, the Queen’s household needed to be reestablished. In November 1539, Margaret was [read more]

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