Claire | November 26, 2017

On this day in history, 26th November 1533, Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset and the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, married Mary Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, at Hampton Court Palace. They were both fourteen years of age. The wedding appears to have been rather low-key, so much […]

Category: Tudor Events | 13 Comments »
Tags: Henry Fitroy, Henry Fitzroy and Mary Howard, Mary Howard

Claire | May 8, 2016

Here is an extract from my book The Fall of Anne Boleyn: A Countdown regarding what happened on this day in 1536: While Anne Boleyn, Mark Smeaton, Sir Henry Norris, Sir Francis Weston, William Brereton, George Boleyn, Sir Richard Page and Sir Thomas Wyatt were in prison awaiting their trials, courtiers were already clamouring over […]

Category: Anne Boleyn Fall, Events of 1536 | 9 Comments »
Tags: Arthur Plantagenet, fall of Anne Boleyn, Henry Fitroy, Henry Norris, Lord Lisle, Richard Staverton