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Mary I and her First Philip

Mary Tudor and Philip of Bavaria dancing as shown on "The Tudors"

Season 4 of the notoriously innacurate but eminently watchable The Tudors ends with the breakdown of Henry VIII’s marriage to his German bride, Anne of Cleves. We see the marriage dissolve, it’s chief engineer Thomas Cromwell go to the block for his role in it, and Henry marry his fifth wife; Catherine Howard. But in… Read More Mary I and her First Philip

January 23, 2024February 6, 2024 SarahLeave a comment

The Nine Days of the Nine Day Queen

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While we know her as the ‘Nine Day Queen’, Lady Jane Grey would probably have passed into history as an irrelevant, albeit intelligent, Tudor cousin had it not been for the ambitious machinations of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. Having schemed his way to the position of Lord Protector during the reign of young Edward… Read More The Nine Days of the Nine Day Queen

March 5, 2016November 16, 2021 Sarah

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