Richmond Palace
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The boy who had been King Edward V….
“confessions”, “Lambert Simnel”, “Oakhanger”, “Perkin”, “Princes”, attainder, Battle of Bosworth, Battle of Stoke, bigamy, Catherine of Aragon, Coldridge, Devon, Dublin Cathedral, Edward of Warwick, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Essex, executions, fiction, fire, George Duke of Clarence, Havering atte Bower, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VI, Henry VII, hunting lodges, illegitimacy, imposture, John Earl of Lincoln, Kent, Lady Catherine Gordon, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord Protector of the Realm, Ludlow Castle, Margaret of Burgundy, notebooks, Oxford, Portuguese marriage plans, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, Richmond Palace, Sheen, Sir John Evans, Sir William Stanley, Spain, Thomas Grey Marquess of Dorset, Thomas Stanley, Titulus Regius, Tower of LondonLadies and gentlemen, please remember that this novella is a fictional account of what might have happened to the boys known as the Princes in the Tower. The theory about Coldridge is not my original thought, nor have I done anything personally to help prove it. To my knowledge there is nowhere called Oakhanger in Kent, let alone that it was held by the Earl of Lincoln. I…
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Royal Autopsy, a documentary series dealing with the recreated post-mortems of Charles II and Elizabeth I….
Alice Roberts, autopsies, Bethlem, Bezoar, blood letting, Brett Lockyer, bronchopneumonia, Charles II, Chelsea Physic Garden, clocks, Edmund King, Elizabeth I, emetics, executions, four humours, hair analysis, Hartshorn, Henry VII, James VI/I, John Dee, Jonathan Goddard, malaria, Mary Stuart, microscope, Nell Jones, parotitis, Rainbow Portrait, renaissance, Richmond Palace, Robert Cecil, Royal Autopsy, Royal Society, scars, sepsis, Sir Charles Scarburgh, Sky History, smallpox, Spanish fly, stroke, succession, sugar, syphilis, teeth, toxicology, Wellcome Collection, white leadI confess to having doubts about watching this two-part series on the Sky History channel because I envisaged CGI overkill with odious (but hopefully by then dead) parasites etc., and so I started viewing with the firm intention of stopping the moment it became too horribly wriggly and gory. No wriggles, but the gory…
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The tapestries of Thomas Wolsey
“The King’s Great Matter”, allegory, Archbishop of York, Archduke Philip, Arthur “Tudor”, Baynard’s Castle, cardinals, Catherine of Aragon, Christ was born as the Redeemer of Man, Emma Luisa Cahill Marron, Ferdinand of Aragon, Field of the Cloth of Gold, Hazel Pierce, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Infanta Maria, Ipswich, Isabel of Castile, Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, Leicester Abbey, Lord Chancellor, Manuel Duke of Beja, Margaret of Salisbury, Narbona Cathedral, Peace and Mercy, Portugal, Richard Gresham, Richmond Palace, Royal College of Arms, Sheen, Sir Edward Howard, Spain, St. George, tapestries, The Creation, The Redemption of Man, The Virtues defy Vices, Thomas Wolsey, tournaments, Trinity College, University of Cantabria, Westminster HallWe have recently come across this rather interesting article, extracted from Reyes y Prelados, by Emma Luisa Cahill Marron (excuse the missing accent) about Cardinal Wolsey and some of his artefacts. The original is in Spanish and here is a translation, by ladychaol.
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I confess that I had never before seen a drawing, painting, engraving, whatever that depicted the Old Palace of Sheen as it was before Henry VII went to work on demolishing it and turning it into Richmond Palace. Sorry, but the present Richmond is a red-brick monstrosity in my opinion. I’m not saying the…
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UPDATED POST ON sparkypus.com A Medieval Potpourri https://sparkypus.com/2020/05/14/the-death-of-henry-vii/ Henry VII on his deathbed : Wriothesley’s Heraldic Collection Vol 1 Book of Funerals. c Unknown artist’s impression of Tudor being crowned in the aftermath of Bosworth.. It must have seemed surreal to him as he wandered through the dead kings apartments at Westminster that had now,…
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This link will take you to a very interesting and information article about Richmond Palace, which was formerly the Palace of Sheen. It led a very chequered life, being destroyed by a king’s grief and then by fire. It was also the scene of Henry VII’s death.
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The above is the only illustration I can find that might be part of the original palace at Sheen. Or, it could be part of Richmond Palace. Tracing details of the original royal palace at Sheen, on the banks of the Thames, is not an easy task, because its Tudor replacement, Richmond Palace, rather steals the…
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