July 7 – News of Edward VI’s death reaches Mary
On this day in Tudor history, 7th July 1553, news of King Edward VI's death reached his eldest…
Read More6 July 1553 – The “boy king” Edward VI dies
On the evening of 6th July 1553, fifteen-year-old King Edward VI, son of King Henry VIII and Queen…
Read More6 July – The Deaths of a King and a former Lord Chancellor
6th July is the anniversary of the deaths of two famous Tudor personalities. Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII's…
Read More6 July 1553 – King Edward VI Dies
At sometime between 8pm and 9pm on 6th July 1553 fifteen year-old King Edward VI, the son of…
Read MoreHelen Castor’s Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death – Episode 3: A Good Death
Last night I watched the third and final episode of historian Helen Castor's series "Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage,…
Read More6 July 1553 – The Death of Edward VI
On the evening of 6th July 1553, King Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, died…
Read More6 July 1535 and 1553 – The Deaths of Sir Thomas More and King Edward VI
Today we remember two very different Tudor characters, and two very different deaths: the execution of Sir Thomas…
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