Queen Elizabeth I – Queen against the odds (Part three)
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 […]
Mary I of England
Queen Elizabeth I – The years of waiting (Part two)
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 […]
Margaret Plantagenet – A traitor’s daughter (Part two)
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 […]
Margaret Plantagenet – A traitor’s daughter (Part one)
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 […]
Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part three)
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 […]
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 […]