Kat Ashley’s Early Role as Protector Alicia von Rittberg as Elizabeth and Alexandra Gilbreath as Kat Ashley in Becoming Elizabeth. Katherine Ashley, known affectionately to the young Elizabeth as Kat, was far more than a…
Henry’s Love of Theatrical Gestures Henry VIII delighted in theatrical gestures. Throughout his youth and early reign he enjoyed elaborate masques, sudden appearances and romantic pranks. One of the most famous of these was the…
Marriage of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images The Marriages of the Tudor Dynasty: Dates and Durations The Tudor dynasty, which ruled England from 1485 to 1603, was shaped as much…
When popular history recalls children associated with the Tower of London, it almost invariably remembers the tragic mystery of the Princes in the Tower, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, who vanished behind its…
Tower of London viewed from the River Thames. Photo: Bob Collowan. Among the dark and heavily shadowed annals of the Tower of London, few narratives are as haunting as those involving the child captives of the…
When the monarchs of sixteenth century England travelled through their realm, they rarely travelled light. A Tudor royal progress was an awe inspiring, costly, and often disruptive spectacle of statecraft. Kings and queens moved across…
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 (1485–1509): The Claim of Blood and Conquest…
