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| | | | | Depiction of Margaret Clifford Stanley from Jan van Belcamp's "The Great Picture", 1646. (Credit: Lakeland Arts@Tate https://lakelandarts.org.uk/items/jan-van-belcamp-c1610-1653/) There was no shortage of female heirs, in remainder to the crown after the death of King Henry VIII. He had passed over the children of his elder sister Margaret Tudor in favor of his own children, followed... | |
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| | | | | Today, it is a pleasure to welcome Aimee Fleming to History...the Interesting Bits. Aimee's first book, The Female Tudor Scholar and Writer | |
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| | | | | In 1141, Matilda, daughter of Henry I, sat down to a victory banquet in Westminster, certain of her imminent coronation as Queen Matilda of England. Yet it was a coronation that would never come to pass - so how was England's potential first queen regnant foiled? | |
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| | | Our Mary Queen of Scots tour included a visit to Tutbury Castle. Mary spent time there when she was being held in genteel custody by Queen Elizabeth I of England. I had always heard that Mary hated this castle so I was curious to see it. I wasn't disappointed. Not much of the castle is... | ||