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 a unique partnership over the years. On 23 November 1558, Elizabeth rode into London and moved into the Tower on 28 November. She moved again a week later, to Somerset [read more]
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 about two years. After this period, he continued to teach her, but it was not on a daily basis. After she became Queen, he wrote of her, “From the age [read more]
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 wife of Jane Seymour’s brother Edward. With Jane now dead and a new Queen soon arriving in England, the Queen’s household needed to be reestablished. In November 1539, Margaret was [read more]
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) child by her second marriage to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. She had previously been married to King James IV of Scotland, but he had died at the Battle [read more]
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 to one reformer, “The state and condition of that kingdom is much more sound and healthy since the marriage of the queen than it was before. She is an excellent [read more]
Anne of Cleves was born in 1515 – on either 22 September or 28 June – in Dusseldorf as the second daughter of John III, Duke of Cleves and Maria of Jülich-Berg. Their first daughter was Sybilla, later Electress of Saxony, and Anne’s birth was followed by that of a brother named William in 1516 [read more]
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