Mary Queen of Scots: A Glittering Future at the French Court
All I can tell you is that I account myself one of the happiest women in the world. These words…
The Memorialisation of Mary Queen of Scots: The Making of an Icon
This blog is adapted from an interview, recorded for my podcast, The Tudor History & Travel Show. Our historian is Dr…
Middleham Castle: Daunting Fortress, Luxurious Home and One Priceless Jewel!
Middleham Castle sits in the wide-open, rugged and beautiful landscape of North Yorkshire, about 230 miles north of London and…
Kimbolton Castle: The Final Days and Death of Katherine of Aragon
On 7 January 1536, a beleaguered Katherine of Aragon died at Kimbolton Castle in Cambridgeshire. She had spent the final…
Rievaulx Abbey & the Brutal Dissolution of the Monasteries
This blog is adapted from an ‘on-location’ interview for my podcast, The Tudor History & Travel Show, recorded at Rievaulx…
Hampton Court: The Emergence of a Tudor Palace
The 30 November (2020) sees the 490th anniversary of the sad demise and death of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey at Leicester…
Esher Place: House of Mourning
The tragic and untimely death of Jane Seymour 483 years ago today devastated Henry VIII. Although Jane died at Hampton…
Harvington Hall: House of Secrets
If you want to explore a Tudor ‘house of secrets’ then the subject of today’s blog, Harvington Hall in Worcestershire,…
HolyRoodhouse: Pleasure Palace of the Stuarts
It is impossible to write a series of blogs about Mary, Queen of Scots without talking about Holyroodhouse, also known…
Jedburgh and the Mysterious Near-Death of Mary, Queen of Scots
For a fleeting period of time, in the autumn of 1566, those standing around the bed of Mary, Queen of…