The Times of the Tudors

Though it is the hair that is the focus of this photo shoot than I think the clothes deserves a second look as well. The hair is done by Err...

The Beret or the "flat-cap" was a favoured type of hat by both men and women during the Tudor times. Normally an expensive fabric ...

The fable creature (bottom photo) is holding a banner with Thomas Wolsey's coat of arms when he was Archbishop of York. The left pa...

Unlike many other family dynasties the Tudors and their courtiers are not all buried in the same cathedral. Instead their graves are scatter...

"The Marian Persecutions" were the series of religious persecutions that took place after Mary I had become Queen of England. The ...

Considering Henry VIII's "difficulties" in finding happiness in marriage it is worth to take a look at that of his parents. Th...

Plain Jane: a Novel of Jane Seymour by Laurien Gardner Jane Seymour by Frances B. Clark The Favoured Wife: a Novel of Henry VIII's T...

Catherine of Aragon by Garrett Mattingly Catherine of Aragon: the Spanish Queen of Henry VIII by Giles Tremlett Catherine of Aragon by A...

The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age...

Lady Jane Grey - A Tudor Mystery by Eric Ives Lady Jane Grey by Hester W. Chapman Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir Lady Jane Grey: Nine...

Not only was Epping Forest one of the many hunting forests for the royal Tudors it also had a special and tragic connection to Henry VIII. W...

Thanks to the National Archives UK the only surviving letter written by Katherine Howard is still beautifully exhibited. Katherine Howard wa...

This is reputedly a copy of Anne Boleyn's last letter to Henry VIII from her final days in the Tower of London which was found among the...

Chidiock Tichborne was one of the men chosen to assassinate Elizabeth I in the doomed Babington plot. On the eve of his execution, 19th Sept...

The man with the peculiar name of Chidiock Tichborne was a poet and a closet-Catholic at the court of Elizabeth I when he gambled all on the...

Leonard Grey, Viscount Grane had been sent to Ireland by Henry VIII where he was to strike down "hostile clans" who opposed the En...

Edmund de la Pole did not have the safest upbringing thanks to his family. First, his brother John fought against Henry VII side by side wit...

Ever since the disastrous and short-lived marriage of Henry VIII to Anne of Cleves, Cromwell's place in the royal favour seemed wavering...

On 23 February 1554 Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk was executed by an axeman on the order of Mary I. In 1851 (almost 300 years after his death)...

Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk and father to the doomed Lady Jane Grey has been seen at Astley Castle long after his death. Astley Castle was o...