At the end of 1969, Anne of the Thousand Days was released in cinemas across the world. An epic historical drama based on the life of...

When compared to the countless portrayals of Queen Elizabeth I, her half-sister Mary is often consigned to the fringes of film and...

I have always revered Elizabeth I. As the daughter of undoubtedly my favourite character from history, Anne Boleyn, and viewed by many as...

I wrote part one of this blog back in March and had planned for part two to follow shortly thereafter, so my apologies that I have only...

Lady Margaret Beaufort is one of the most fascinating and at times unfairly maligned characters from English history. Thanks to fictional...

Game of Thrones, the television drama adapted from George RR Martin's book series "A Song of Ice and Fire" has been called the biggest...

Very few high profile women in Tudor England met their ends on the executioners scaffold. Countless common folk did of course die in...

On the 8th February 1587, Mary Stuart, formally Queen of Scotland was led to a scaffold in the Great Hall of Fotheringhay Castle. Shortly...

On the 12th February 1554, a girl of just seventeen was led from her rooms in the tower of London to the place of execution within its...

On December 27th 1539, Princess Anna von Jülich-Kleve-Berg, more commonly known as Anne of Cleves arrived at Deal in Kent in preparation...

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. These six words are as famous as the six women that they reference. I realise...

On the 13th of February 1542, Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII was executed at the Tower of London. Eustace Chapuys, the...

I would say with some confidence that more films, tv shows, books and plays have been made about Anne Boleyn than the other five of Henry...

In the shadow of her infinitely more famous and successful sister Elizabeth I, it's easy to overlook the fact that Queen Mary I was...

Whenever anyone discusses Henry VIII, four words invariably follow his name - "and his six wives". The stories of Henry's six Queens are...

One thing that unequivocally brought some semblance of stability to England in the late middle ages was the marriage between Henry Tudor,...

In 1848, a historian by the name of Lord Thomas Macaulay visited the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the grounds of The Tower of...

Ugggghh, the eternal mystery that is what on earth did Anne Boleyn really look like. It's perplexed historians and fans alike for...

Nothing seems to divide historians more than determining how old Anne Boleyn was when she died in 1536. For the most part, historians are...