I read Gareth Russell’s Young and Damned and Fair a few months ago, and it was the best source for this short video on the occurrences of July 28, 1540 in Tudor England: Catherine Howard’s marriage, and her future foreshadowed in Cromwell’s fate. Sources: Russell, Gareth. Young
In researching this video, I had so much fun (yes, macabre, I know) reading through the British Library's archive of the letters flying around Henry VIII's court in May, 1536. I've pulled out an excerpt from Cranmer's May 3rd letter to Henry,
When Henry VIII couldn't use the Treaty of Greenwich to take the crown of Scotland through a marriage between the infant Mary and his son Edward, he decided to burn the country to the ground.
Amidst what felt like a deathly cold in late March, I was reading about arsenic poisonings to make myself feel better (as one does when you're ill). It was during this week that I came across the Affair of the Poisons the scandalized the court of King Louis
When Prince Andrew was formally arrested in February 2026, I immediately thought of the last royal to be taken into custody: King Charles I, in 1647. For Andrew, the arrest led to a quiet exit from public life. For Charles, it led to a civil war, the rise of a
Watch on Youtube Image Sources: By order of appearance Philippa of Hainault by W.H. Egleton for the book Biographical Sketches of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest to Victoria Note: While I know this isn't meant to be Isabelle, I decided to use it because
Van Dyck portraits, Parliamentary records, and the last royal arrest before Prince Andrew