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Claire | November 17, 2011
On this day in history, 17th November 1558, Henry VIII’s eldest child, Queen Mary I, died. She was just 42 years old. In his recent biography of Mary, “Mary Tudor”, David Loades writes of Mary “seems to have retreated into her shell” after her husband Philip’s second departure in July 1557. He writes of how
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Claire | November 13, 2011
On this day in history, 13th November 1553, Lady Jane Grey, her husband Guildford Dudley, his brothers Ambrose and Henry, and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer were tried for treason at a public trial at London’s Guildhall. They were led from the Tower of London, through the streets on foot, in a procession led by a man
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Claire | October 16, 2011
On this day in history, 16th October… 1555 – The burnings of two of the Oxford martyrs: Hugh Latimer, Bishop of Worcester, and Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London. You can read more about this day in my article The Burnings of Ridley and Latimer and in John Foxe’s account of their lives, trials and deaths
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Claire | October 5, 2011
On this day in history, 5th October… 1518 – Formal betrothal of Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and the Dauphin of France. 1549 – Edward Seymour, Protector Somerset, “issued a proclamation for a general array to gather at Hampton Court, where the King was lodged with the Protector”, due to
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Claire | October 1, 2011
This day in history, 1st October 1553, was a very important day in history because England’s first crowned queen regnant, i.e. a queen ruling in her own right, was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, became England’s first queen and although many people believe that her reign
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Claire | September 30, 2011
On Saturday 30th September 1553, at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, Mary I left the Tower of London to the sound of guns firing and church bells ringing. This was her coronation procession and the next day she would be crowned Queen of England. The procession leaving the Tower consisted of the Queen’s messengers, trumpeters,
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Claire | September 28, 2011
On this day in history… 1599 – Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex strode into Elizabeth I’s bedchamber unannounced and saw the Queen without her makeup or wig, without her ‘mask of youth’. This was after his unsuccessful campaign in Ireland. He had made a truce with the rebel leader, without the Queen’s permission, and
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Claire | July 10, 2011
On the afternoon of Monday 10th July 1553, Lady Jane Grey, her husband, Guildford Dudley, her parents and Guildford’s mother arrived by barge at the Tower of London, having travelled from Syon. They were greeted there by Guildford’s father, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and other councillors, before they made their way through the Tower
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