Ashlie Newcombe
Fashion Queen: Elizabeth of York and Tudor Fashion
(© Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery) Elizabeth of York, daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, was a pivotal...
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Lucy Palmer-Cooper
Sep 7
The birth of a Future Queen - Elizabeth Tudor
The Rainbow Portrait, c.1600 © Hatfield House “God of His infinite goodness, send prosperous life and long, to the high and mighty...
Sira Barbeito
Aug 12
The nine days queen - Lady Jane Grey
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche, 1833 in the National Portrait Gallery. You may have heard about the queen of the...
Charlotte-Whitney Brown
Jun 12
Silk and Sinful Souls: A New Year’s Gift from Lady Elizabeth
Lady Elizabeth and Katharine Parr in Becoming Elizabeth Although we are approaching the middle of the year, there will no doubt be some...
Jade Lynch
Jun 8
The death of the White Queen; Queen Elizabeth Woodville
(Cover image – © The White Queen) Arguably one of the most renowned and controversial queens that the Kingdom of England has ever seen,...
Emma Holbrook
Mar 18
Like mother, like daughter: Elizabeth Tudor’s traumatic imprisonment in the Tower of London
Elizabeth I when a Princess, c1546. Royal Collection Trust / © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017 The year is 1554 of the Tudor era...
Maria Margarita
Feb 11
Our Good Gracious Queen - the birth and early years of Elizabeth of York
Max Irons and Rebecca Ferguson as Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville in The White Queen (2013). © BBC At the beginning of February 1466,...
Jade Lynch
Nov 25, 2023
The first Tudor Queen - Elizabeth of York's coronation
(Cover image – © Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery) Over five hundred years ago on this day, the 25th of November 1487,...
Sira Barbeito
Nov 17, 2023
The sad truth behind Mary Tudor's mental health, phantom pregnancy and eventual death
Mary Tudor © Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery Mary Tudor was born on 18 February 1516 at the Palace of Placentia in...
Sira Barbeito
Oct 1, 2023
England's first Queen Regent; Mary I and how she forever changed England
© Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery Mary I was born on 18 February 1516 at Greenwich, England, to her parents King Henry...
Multiple authors
Sep 28, 2023
Representation of England’s first Queen in her own right – Mary Tudor
Written by Emma Holbrook and Jessica Faulkner (Cover image – © Pinterest) If there is one female historical figure that I will never tire...
Emma Holbrook
Sep 26, 2023
A fifth and final stepmother – the relationship between Mary I of England and Katharine Parr
(Cover image – © The Tudors – Showtime) If there was anything that the young Lady Mary Tudor had learned about her father over the course...
Ellie Webster
Sep 24, 2023
The Unclear Relationship Between Mary I and Katheryn Howard
© Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery Portrait of a Young Woman (often understood to be Katheryn Howard) by the Workshop of...
Emma Holbrook
Sep 20, 2023
The relationship between Mary Tudor and the King's Beloved Sister, Anna von Kleve
(Cover image – © The Tudors – Showtime) Arguably the darkest period of Henry VIII’s life was between the years of 1537 to 1540 following...
Emma Holbrook
Sep 15, 2023
Queen cousins with the same name – Mary Tudor and Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary Tudor © Unknown Artist – The National Portrait Gallery Portrait of Mary Stuart at about 17 years old, by François Clouet,...
Ellie Webster
Aug 30, 2023
A loving, supportive stepmother; the relationship of Mary I and Jane Seymour
(Cover image – © The Tudors – Showtime) As a result of her bitter estrangement and hostility between her and her father, King Henry VIII,...
Sira Barbeito
Aug 23, 2023
A rivalry between half-sisters - Mary and Elizabeth Tudor
© Starz – Becoming Elizabeth Mary I and Elizabeth I were born as little less than disappointments to their father, Henry VIII, whose...
Sira Barbeito
Aug 14, 2023
Mary Tudor and Anne Boleyn – She is my death and I am hers; was Anne a wicked stepmother?
(Natalie Dormer and Sarah Bolger in Showtime's The Tudors) It was early morning on 25 January 1533 at Whitehall Palace. A clandestine...
Emma Holbrook
Aug 11, 2023
The distant and complicated relationship between Mary I and her father, King Henry VIII
(Cover image – © The Tudors – Showtime) Receiving love, attention, and approval from one’s father is something that young women...
Emma Holbrook
Aug 9, 2023
The loving relationship between Mary I and her mother, Catherine of Aragon
(Cover image – © The Tudors – Showtime) A daughter’s relationship with her mother is one of the most beautiful relationships to ever...
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