The Grave of Mary Tudor at St Mary’s Church, Bury St Edmunds
Mary Tudor was born on 18 March 1496 as the daughter of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York at Sheen Palace, later known as […]
Places To Visit
Queen Isabella and Bury St Edmunds Abbey
The Abbey Church of St Edmund was built between the 11th and 12th century, and the body of the martyred King Edmund was interred there […]
Burying a Duchess – Cecily Neville at the Church of St Mary and All Saints
Cecily Neville was born on 3 May 1415 at Raby Castle as the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, Countess […]
Fotheringhay Castle and the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Some stone with a fence around it is now all that remains of Fotheringhay Castle. Three signs tell part of its story; one states the […]
The Palace of Placentia – Birthplace of two Queens
Nothing now remains of The Palace Of Placentia – built in 1443 by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester – on the banks of the River Thames. […]
The Tsar Peter House
This little wooden house hardly inspires visions of Peter the Great but he stayed here several times. The house was built in 1632 for a […]