Catherine of Aragon
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“Henry VIII and his six wives” – Channel Five
“Tudors”, Anne Boleyn, Anne of Cleves, Arthur “Tudor”, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, Channel Five, Channel Four, Dan Jones, David Starkey, executions, Francis Dereham, Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, John Ashdown-Hill, Katherine Howard, pre-contract, Royal Marriage Secrets, Stephen Gardiner, Suzannah Lipscomb, television programmes, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas WolseyThis has been presented by two of Five’s favourite history presenters: Dan Jones and Suzannah Lipscomb. Perhaps the title isn’t the best of starts, as Ashdown-Hill (Royal Marriage Secrets, ch.10, pp.95-113) has shown that Henry may have contracted as few as two valid marriages, the third and sixth ceremonies. Jones begins every episode by reciting…
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In this excellent blog post Kathryn Warner refreshes our understanding of Constanza, Duchess of Lancaster, with her usual eye for false myth. However, one particularly interesting fact arising from the post (in that it relates to the House of York) is that Pedro I, King of Castile, (Constanza’s father) was six feet tall with light blond…
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I admit it: when I first fell for Richard III and through him, the House of York and Wars of the Roses history in general, I hated Henry VII. (I also hated his mother Margaret Beaufort, the perfidious Stanleys, the late queen Margaret of Anjou, and anyone else I could blame for bringing harm upon…
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Today is the annniversary of the death in 1416 of Constance of York, Lady Despenser and (for a time) Countess of Gloucester. She was one of many people of various conditions in life who inexplicably preferred the ‘tyranny’ of Richard II to the rule of Henry IV, and put their lives at risk to do…
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