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 […]
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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, […]
Lost Kingdoms – Kingdom of Aragon
House of Jiménez The Kingdom of Aragon began its life in 1035 when it was established as an independent Kingdom. Its first King was Ramiro […]
Lost Kingdoms – Kingdom of Portugal
The Kingdom of Portugal began its life in 1139 when Afonso Henriques, Count of Portugal, was acclaimed King of the Portuguese. House of Burgundy His wife was Matilda […]