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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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 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 […]
Margaret Douglas – The legacy of Royal Tudor blood (Part one)
On 7 October 1515 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, gave birth to her seventh child, though the first (and as it would turn out only) […]
Anne of Cleves – God send me well to keep (Part two)
Read part one here. Despite her marriage being on the rocks, Anne was popular in England, and she was actually good at being Queen. According […]
Anne of Cleves – God send me well to keep (Part one)
Anne of Cleves was born in 1515 – on either 22 September or 28 June – in Dusseldorf as the second daughter of John III, […]