Research
I read Gareth Russell’s Young and Damned and Fair a few months ago, and it was the best source for this short video on the occurrences of July 28, 1540 in Tudor England: Catherine Howard’s marriage, and her future foreshadowed in Cromwell’s fate. Sources: Russell, Gareth. Young
Research
In researching this video, I had so much fun (yes, macabre, I know) reading through the British Library's archive of the letters flying around Henry VIII's court in May, 1536. I've pulled out an excerpt from Cranmer's May 3rd letter to Henry,
Research
When Henry VIII couldn't use the Treaty of Greenwich to take the crown of Scotland through a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward, he decided to burn the country to the ground. Watch on Youtube Sources: Fraser, Antonia. Mary Queen of Scots. London: Weidenfeld &
Research
Amidst what felt like a deathly cold in late March, I was reading about arsenic poisonings to make myself feel better (as one does when you're ill). It was during this week that I came across the Affair of the Poisons the scandalized the court of King Louis
Queen Isabella of France
Watch on Youtube Image Sources: By order of appearance Philippa of Hainault by W.H. Egleton for the book Biographical Sketches of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest to Victoria Note: While I know this isn't meant to be Isabelle, I decided to use it because
Catherine of Aragon
King Charles I
Van Dyck portraits, Parliamentary records, and the last royal arrest before Prince Andrew