The legends and myths of Wales are so numerous it would take years to tell all the stories. All the legends and myths have been told through the centuries by one generation to the next, and without question bits have been added to the stories, and some bits taken away. But what remains consistent is ...
King Henry VII ascended to the throne of England through an act of illegitimacy (no, it had nothing to do with the Supreme Court or his brother being governor of Florida), and the primary concern of his tenure was to strengthen his hold on the throne while also extending the claims of dynastic power that ...
Every year, the Anglican Church celebrates the life of Sir Thomas More with an official feast day on his birthday, the 7th of February. The Roman Catholic Church does the same thing on the 22nd of June.1 Why is this man venerated by Protestants and Catholics alike? Sir Thomas More has become Saint Thomas More ...
Anyone tuning in to the Showtime series “The Tudors” to see an accurate depiction of historical fact will be sadly disappointed but entertained, none the less. The script writer has taken extreme liberty with historical fact and applied artist license to tell a story about a period in the life of the King of England, ...
Emma Thompson has played her. Shakespeare conveyed her great beauty in his plays. She bore Henry V his only son. She was the daughter of Charles VI King of France and his queen consort Isabelle of Bavaria. Yet odds are good few of us really know her. She was Catherine de Valois and she was ...
Henry VIII was never meant to be king. His father, Henry VII, had come to the throne after a very bloody civil war. Arthur, Henry’s intelligent and thoughtful older brother, was always meant to reign while “Harry”, as Henry VIII was called at the time, was merely Bonnie Prince Hal. Since ensuring the monarchy was ...