Claire | December 31, 2011
I hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and that Father Christmas brought you all that your heart desired. Of course, in Tudor times gifts were given at New Year rather than Christmas and I love reading the lists of New Year’s gifts in Letters and Papers to get a glimpse into the lives
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Category: Anne Queen Consort, Henry VIII, Tudor Times |
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Claire | December 22, 2010
Giving gifts at Christmas is a relatively modern phenomenon, even here in Spain the gifts come from the Three Kings on the eve of Epiphany rather than from Santa on Christmas Eve. In Tudor times, gifts were given at New Year and I thought you might be interested in the following:- January 1533 (the same
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Category: Anne Queen Consort, art, Hans Holbein, Henry VIII |
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Tags: Anne Boleyn, Hans Holbein the Younger, Henry VIII, Marriage, New Year gifts