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 […]
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Isabel Neville – The forgotten Duchess
Isabel Neville was born on 5 September 1451 at Warwick Castle as the elder daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker), and […]
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 […]
Queen Elizabeth I – A Tudor Princess (Part one)
On 7 September 1533 at 3 in the afternoon, Anne Boleyn gave birth to a daughter at Greenwich who would be named Elizabeth. Elizabeth’s father, […]
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 […]
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 […]