2nd January In 1539, Geoffrey Pole, son of Sir Richard Pole and Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was pardoned after attempting suicide for the third time. Pole had been imprisoned in the Tower of London…
In the middle of the sixteenth century, when most monarchs moved through the countryside with trains of wagons and hundreds of servants, one queen chose a quieter path. Queen Mary of England seldom went on…
Eden, William Denis; John Cabot and His Sons Receive the Charter from Henry VII to Sail in Search of New Lands, 1496; Parliamentary Art Collection; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/john-cabot-and-his-sons-receive-the-charter-from-henry-vii-to-sail-in-search-of-new-lands-1496-213842 HENRY VII: At his coronation, Henry VII received the…
