Claire | July 28, 2016
On 28th July 1540, the same day that Henry VIII married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, the man who had negotiated the King’s fourth marriage, to Anne of Cleves, was executed on Tower Hill having been found guilty by a bill of attainder of the crimes of corruption, heresy and treason. Chronicler Edward Hall recounts […]
Category: Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Cromwell's execution, execution of Thomas Cromwell, execution of Walter Hungerford, Thomas Cromwell, Walter Hungerford
Claire | May 25, 2013
As so many of you enjoyed my rundown on the Anne Boleyn programme, I thought I’d do the same for the Cromwell programme. It’s a sacrifice you know as it is impossible to hold a glass of wine while scribbling frantically and trying to balance both notepad and cat on one’s lap! All of the […]
Category: The Reformation, Tudor Characters |
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Tags: Cromwell execution, Cromwell's execution, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Henry VIII's Enforcer, The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell life, Thomas Cromwell's fall
