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(Cover image – © Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery) On this day, the 21st April 1509, over five-hundred years ago, the King...

(© Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery) On March 21 1534 , Anne Boleyn was granted 'certain lands and rents, the same as...

Elizabeth I when a Princess, c1546. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017 The year is 1554 of the Tudor era...

(Cover image – © Pinterest) It is of common conception in popular culture that Thomas Boleyn used his own daughter's sexuality in order...

The Murder of David Rizzio by Jean Lulves The sixteenth century was most certainly filled with scandal, intrigue, and astonishing...

Max Irons and Rebecca Ferguson as Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen (2013). © BBC At the beginning of February 1466,...

(Cover image – © Pinterest) She was wearing black clothing and a long white veil trailing behind her, all smiles and cheers as if her...

(Cover image – © Pinterest) Henry VIII is one of the most famous monarchs in all of English history, known mostly for his six wives, the...

( Isabel of Castille - © Royal Collection Trust ) Today, we remember the anniversary of the death of Isabella of Castile. Isabella of...

(Cover image – © Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery) Over five hundred years ago on this day, the 25th of November 1487,...

Cover image – © Pinterest On this day, during the cold English winter of November 1499, Perkin Warbeck - a pretender of the heir to the...

Mary Tudor © Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery Mary Tudor was born on 18 February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in...

(Image © Pinterest) One of the most tragic and unforeseen moments in Tudor history was the death of the teenage heir to the throne,...

Cover image – © National Trust On 26th of October 1451, Juana Enríquez found herself in Navarre due to some brawls between her husband,...

(Cover image - Queen Margaret by Daniel Mytens) "I am sore troubled with my Lord of Angus since my last coming into Scotland, and every...

(Cover image – Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery) Henry VIII’s probably one of the most recognisable monarchs in the whole...

(Cover image – © Pinterest) It was autumn of 1515. A 25 year-old Margaret Tudor, one of Henry VIII’s sisters and former Queen of Scots,...

© Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery Not many men were fortunate enough to remain a favourite of King Henry VIII nor survive...

Image: A 1591 manuscript illustration showing James IV of Scotland (r. 1488-1513) and Margaret Tudor (1489-1541). Seton Armorial....

(Cover image - Queen Margaret by Daniel Mytens) Margaret Tudor was the oldest of King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York’s daughters...