Last week, I published the first part of a glorious account of the meeting between Henry VIII and Charles V,…
In late May 1520, the English royal household began to make its way from Greenwich toward the Pale of Calais…
On 7 January 1536, a beleaguered Katherine of Aragon died at Kimbolton Castle in Cambridgeshire. She had spent the final…
To Charles Brandon, Katherine of Aragon was simply ‘the most obstinate woman that may be’. Having been discarded by her…
When Henry VIII fought openly with his wife at the trial of Blackfriars, he sought to undermine her story that…
In the run-up to the release of the TV series, The Spanish Princess, we have an opportunity to delve into…