Claire | August 15, 2022
The Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth” recently brought to life a scandal that affected Queen Elizabeth I in her youth. This scandal affected Elizabeth’s relationship with her beloved stepmother, Catherine Parr, the dowager queen, and saw Elizabeth surrounded by rumour and gossip. It’s something that must have had a huge impact on her. What was this […]
Claire | July 1, 2022
I’m so excited about my latest online event, “Elizabeth I: The Life of Gloriana, the Virgin Queen”. It officially starts in September but I’ve been holding weekly group discussions on the Starz series “Becoming Elizabeth” – which have been great fun and very enlightening – and today our first historian talk goes live on the […]
Joel Ridgway | February 5, 2022
On this day in Tudor history, 5th February 1549, in the reign of King Edward VI, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth, the future Queen Elizabeth I, was summoned to appear before Sir Robert Tyrwhitt, who was keeping her under house arrest at Hatfield while the Crown investigated Thomas Seymour. Edward VI’s privy council were investigating whether Elizabeth was […]
Claire | December 11, 2015
A big welcome to historian Elizabeth Norton who joins us today for a guest post on the subject of her latest book The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor. Over to Elizabeth… June 1547. The court of Edward VI was stunned by the news that the queen dowager – Catherine Parr – had married the boy king’s […]
