Seymours
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… by the sixteenth century spokesman for the Marriage Guidance Council. After all, he had experience of six marriage ceremonies, even if he subsequently annulled four of them. Two of his “wives” didn’t have to waste time and money on their hairstyle or headdress – how thoughtful of him.
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Another interesting hypothesis
Arbella Stuart, Bavaria, Britain’s Real Monarch, Charles “III”, Clementina Walkinshaw, Culloden, Diana Princess of Wales, Edward of Warwick, executions, Glorious Revolution, Greys, Henry “IX”, Henry Lord Montagu, Henry Pole the Younger, Henry VIII, hypotheses, illegitimacy, Jacobites, James of Monmouth, James VII/II, John Ashdown-Hill, Lady Katherine Grey, Liechtenstein, Margaret of Salisbury, marriage law, Michael K Jones, Poles, Royal Marriage Secrets, Sardinia, Scotland, Seymours, Spencers, Tony Robinson, Useful ChartsOn Thursday, we published a presentation by “Useful Charts”, showing how the English throne may have descended had Henry VIII’s will been followed after 1603 as it had beforehand. Of course, the family in question may have fared differently anyway if Lady Katherine Grey, her Seymour husband, and son and Arbella Stuart, the latter’s wife,…
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During lockdown, I found myself walking around local villages, some that I had only passed through before. An interesting one was Orcheston, a tiny, sleepy place which has not one, but TWO medieval churches, St George’s and St Mary’s, one set at either end of the village. Both were interesting to visit but what was…
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In October, we published an updated version of a Bulletin article, showing that all of Henry VIII’s “wives” were descended from Edward I. Thanks to Ann for her comment on the above article, that Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour and Katherine Howard share the same mtDNA, therefore Edward VI and Elizabeth I should do. Having investigated…
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Marlborough is a quaint little town in Wiltshire. It has a rather famous College (once attended by Kate Middleton) but no buildings dating much before Tudor times other than two heavily restored churches. However, it used to have a castle, and a rather important one too. The first castle was built by William the Conqueror…
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The Howards, Talbots and Seymours – England’s auxilliary royal families?
Admiral Charles Rodney, Admiral Thomas Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, Charles II, Dukes of Somerset, Edward IV, George IV, George V, Henry VIII, Howards, James of Monmouth, Jane Seymour, John Ashdown-Hill, John Howard Duke of Norfolk, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Laura Culme-Seymour, Lucy Walter, Maria Smythe, Miranda Hart, naval families, Royal Marriage Secrets, Seymours, TalbotsThis document shows the descent of the known “wives”, secret wives, mistresses, illegal wives and alleged partners of five English and British kings, taken from Ashdown-Hill’s Royal Marriage Secrets: thosehowardsagain As a bonus, Laura Culme-Seymour, from a naval family, including Admiral Thomas Lord Seymour; Admiral Rodney and the first three Culme-Seymour baronets, has a famous…
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