I have only just begun reading about the "Tudors", therefore, my previous knowledge was rather limited. This particular book, focuses on Mary the daughter of Katherine of Aragon and Henry the VIII. I found myself sympathetic to her since her father proclaimed her illegitimate, I found myself res...
VAN der Delft wrote on September 15, 1549. Somerset’s handling of the rebellions and the continuing war with France and Scotland had lost him the confidence of the nobility and gentry. “The people are all in confusion, and with one common voice lament the present state of things.”1 It was the beg...
Moody planned to gain access to the court, lay a trail of gunpowder to Elizabeth’s Bedchamber and under the Queen’s bed, and blow her to pieces.2 Having been apparently won over to the plot, William Stafford drew in Chateauneuf, the French ambassador and his secretary Leonard des Trappes. He told...