Penelope Devereux was born in January 1563 in Staffordshire to parents Walter Devereux, who later became the 1st Earl of Essex, and his wife, Lettice Knollys. Penelope’s siblings that survived infancy were Dorothy, Walter and Robert, who became a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I and was a high-ranking privy counsellor. Penelope came from a long [read more]
Read part three here. The trouble with Mary, Queen of Scots, was not over yet. The Babington Plot of 1586 saw Elizabeth’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham beginning to assemble a case against her. Following a letter in which Mary incriminated herself in the plot, she was put on trial. However, putting a sister sovereign to [read more]
This article was written by Christine. You can also follow Christine on her YouTube channel, The History Gal. Who Was Mary? So frequently, Mary Boleyn is painted as the unsuccessful Boleyn sister, overshadowed by the infamous reputation of her sister, Anne. Others have suggested that Mary’s main storyline in history was as a royal mistress [read more]
Youth Anne Boleyn was most likely born in Blickling in either 1501 or 1507. Eric Ives believes that the earlier date is correct.Her father Thomas was the son of Sir William Boleyn of Blickling and her mother Elizabeth was the daughter of Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, later Duke of Norfolk. In 1503, Thomas escorted [read more]
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