This show notes page accompanies my on-location visit to Rockingham Castle in Northamptonshire. The Castle was built by William the Conqueror in the late eleventh century as a motte-and-bailey castle. In Tudor times, Rockingham shifted from a medieval fortress into a comfortable family home. In 1544, King Henry VIII granted the castle to Edward Watson. The Watson’s have owned and lived in the castle ever since.
Name and Title(s): Mary, Queen of Scots and Queen Consort of France
Born: 8 December 1542, Linlithgow Palace
Died: Executed at Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587
Buried:First, Peterborough Cathedral and later Westminster Abbey, London.
In this episode, I return to Sudeley Castle and Collyweston Palace to find out more about the incredible findings from their archaeological digs. I
The Palace of Collyweston has become nothing short of the stuff of legend. This was an extensive Tudor palace favoured…
There is something strangely compelling about making a pilgrimage to the site from which your Tudor heroine or hero departed…
