All About History

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Dr Donald Matzat has been a pastor in the Lutheran Church for over 50 years. In 2017, he adapted Katherine Parr’s The Lamentation Of A Sinner. This is probably the first time this treatise has been made available as a standalone volume since 1562. It

History Revealed

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An anonymous chronicle claimed that Catherine Howard’s last words were: " I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Thomas Culpeper". Culpeper was her accused lover, but historians dispute that she would have said this. In 2018, a Tudor gard

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HISTORICAL BOX-SET SPECIAL BRITBOX Jenna Coleman stars as a young Queen Victoria in the hit ITV drama which follows the monarch from her accession to the throne at the tender age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert (Tom Hughes). The

How It Works

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1 Anne Boleyn King Henry VIII’s second wife was imprisoned at the tower, falsely accused and convicted of adultery, incest and treason. On 19 May 1536 she was executed, beheaded by the blade of sword. 2 Guy Fawkes As a chief conspirator in a plot t

History Revealed

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Popular history is so well versed in the six wives of Henry VIII that they require little introduction. Seemingly every depiction of his reign, from the colourful bodice-ripper series The Tudors to the flickering candlelight drama Wolf Hall, serves t

History Revealed

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Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. How King Henry VIII ended each of his marriages is widely known thanks to this handy rhyme, while the stories of his six wives continue to enthrall. The annulment of his marriage to Catherine of

History Revealed

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The exact date of Catherine Howard’s birth is unknown, and little is known about her early childhood either. But when Catherine was about ten or 12 years old, after her mother had died and her father had remarried, she was sent to live with her step-

History Revealed

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The jewel of England’s Tudor palaces witnessed a fair few important events during Henry’s reign – if only the walls could talk One of the most important residences during Henry VIII’s reign, Hampton Court Palace is a treasure trove of Tudor history.

BBC History Magazine

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At nine o’clock on 15 May 1536, the Great Hall at the Tower of London – part of the now lost Tudor royal palace – was thronging with some 2,000 courtiers, clerics and lawyers, all gathered to witness the trial of the century. Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’

History Revealed

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3 The number of books published by Henry VIII’s sixth wife, Katherine Parr, during their marriage 20,000 The number of women who marched on Pretoria in 1956 to protest against Pass Laws 338,226 The number of men saved in a “miracle of deliverance”

BBC History Magazine

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In theory, Anne Boleyn’s execution had created a precedent for the lawful killing of an anointed queen. The various protocols were tested again less than six years later when, in February 1542, Henry’s fifth wife, Catherine Howard, was sent to her de

People

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A NEW SERIES EXPLORES THE HIDDEN LIVES—AND SURPRISING INDEPENDENCE—OF THE WOMEN WHOSE MARRIAGES WOULD CHANGE HISTORY

History Revealed

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The penultimate book in Alison Weir’s Six Tudor Queens series focuses on the tragic young Katheryn Howard. A pawn in the hands of her ambitious family, Katheryn is thrust into the arms of Henry VIII, but her past soon comes back to haunt her. Their m

History Revealed

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WHY DID YOU CHOOSE HENRY VIII? Because I look like this! I tried being George Clooney, but I starved. When I first started in 2004 my beard was incredibly red, and I have to say I did look just like the famous Holbein painting when I was fully “togg

All About History

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Henry VIII was only 17 when he took to the throne in 1509. As a prince he was deemed to be athletic and highly intelligent, enjoying music and writing books. One of Henry’s constant obsessions was his desire to continue his dynasty through a male hei

All About History

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Nathen Amin is a historian and researcher from Carmarthenshire, Wales, whose work focuses on the reign of Henry VII and the 15th century in general. His books include The House Of Beaufort and Henry VII And The Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck And W

History of War

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One surprising source of information regarding the career of Sir Thomas Stukeley is the works of art and literature that portrayed him. That he was the subject of such works, in some cases long after his death, suggests that he held some importance a

Woman's Own

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Perhaps the most famous divorce in history was King Henry VIII’s from Catherine of Aragon when he ended their marriage to marry her lady-in-waiting, Anne Boleyn. After the Pope refused his request, King Henry broke away from the Catholic Church, decl

History Revealed

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1,600 The number of meals served daily by the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace when the King and court were in residence 200,000 DUCATS Catherine of Aragon’s dowry on her marriage to Prince Arthur 11 The number of days between Anne Boleyn’s executi

History Revealed

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BORN: c1508 DIED: 24 October 1537 QUEEN FROM: 30 May 1536 until 24 October 1537 PARENTS: Sir John Seymour of Wolf Hall in Wiltshire and Margery Wentworth. CHILDREN: Edward VI REMEMBERED FOR: Being the only wife to provide Henry with his much-des

World Coin News

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Coin collectors are unlikely to be gardening enthusiasts, but at least twice recently weeding someone’s garden has resulted in significant coin finds. Most of us are pleased to see 2020 go away. The year 2020 has been the year of a pandemic, a result

History Revealed

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Q: How happy were the early years of Henry’s first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon? A: I would say was his happiest marriage, ironically, given what happened. But Catherine and Henry had many happy years together and appeared to be very much in lo

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Historian-presenter Lucy Worsley has devoted a big chunk of her screen career to the Tudors, and especially Henry VIII. In A Merry Tudor Christmas, she’s aiming to relive how 16th-century England, then a devout Catholic country, celebrated Christmas

New Zealand Listener

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Readers were asked to describe a historical event in the form of a limerick or cinquain. Peter Chapman, Christchurch: Catherine Howard lost her head/Catherine of Aragon also dead/Another Catherine completed Parr for the course/Anne Boleyn’s beheading

BBC History Magazine

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Mary is born in Greenwich. She is the only child of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon (pictured below), to survive infancy Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine is declared invalid five months after he marries a second wife, Anne Boley

History of War

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DM Loades, Two Tudor Conspiracies,Headstart History Publishing 1992 (first published 1965) JAFroude, The Reign Of Mary Tudor, Continuum 2009 (first published 1889) PF Tytler, England Under The Reigns Of Edward VI And Mary, Adamant Media Corporation 2

GQ India

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Prizes can be superfluous. I say this because we all know how frustrating they can be, year after year, as debates about the best film, album or book pop up at dinner tables. We know these decisions are subjective, and almost always political, but wa

History Revealed

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Within two months of coming to the throne in 1509, the young King Henry VIII had married Catherine of Aragon, and within two years he had a son and heir. Catherine – the beautiful, intelligent and accomplished princess from Spain, and widow of Henry’

History Revealed

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Take an intimate look behind the closed doors of one of the most celebrated royal dynasties and discover previously unexamined details about the characters we think we know so well – from Henry VII’s grief at the death of his son, Arthur, to the trag

Britain

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Part Two T he death in 1537 of Henry VIII’s third wife Jane Seymour had cast the King into a deep depression and his marital track record – divorcing his first wife Catherine of Aragon and executing his second wife Anne Boleyn – hardly recommended hi