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Did the Tudors value the New Year as much as modern people do today?

Catherine of Aragon – Doomed to a marriage full of infidelity and misery

The birth of Christ / Christmas; how did the Tudors celebrate this world-renown holiday?

The strong-willed mother / daughter relationship between Isabella and Catherine

Elizabeth Amadas; noble lady turned social disgrace?

Henry VIII's alleged peasant mistress; Agnes Blewitt

The birth of Spain’s ‘driven to insanity’ Queen; Juana of Castile

All Hallows Eve / Halloween; the history behind one of our favourite times of the year

Another alleged mistress of Henry VIII; Jane Pollard whose son claimed to be the King's bastard

Nameless Mistress Parker; one of Henry’s mystery lovers?

Elizabeth Carew; the wife of a dear friend turned royal mistress?

Childhood tutor turned mistress - Jane Poppincourt; a scandalous woman?

The King who never was – Arthur Tudor, Crown Prince of Wales

Bessie Blount; the mistress who bore the King a son

Étiennette de la Baume; one of Henry's many war-time affairs?

Anne Stafford; Henry's first mistress?

The devastating end of the wars of the roses - Battle of Bosworth; the rise of the first Tudor King

The birth of Margaret Pole; one of the last surviving Plantagenets in the Tudor era

Catherine of Aragon – Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII

Catherine of Aragon – A grieving widow yet hopeful queen-in-waiting