A King’s Impatience In November 1501, after years of negotiation, repeated delays and careful diplomacy, the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon finally reached English soil. She had landed at Plymouth in early October and made…
A Beaufort Heiress in Turbulent Times Amanda Hale as Margaret in The White Queen. Margaret Beaufort was born on 31 May 1443 at Bletso in Bedfordshire, a manor that belonged to her mother, Margaret Beauchamp…
A Different Kind of Terror Henry VII (1457-1509), King of England Henry VII is often remembered as a cold, distant and deeply suspicious monarch. Contemporary chroniclers and later historians frequently emphasised his avarice and his…
