Month: October 2009

Here’s a quick review of the latest news here at the Elizabeth files and in the Tudor world, please comment…

This is part three of my series on Elizabeth I and Mary I and the relationship they had as half-sisters….

If you watched “The Tudors”, you may have been surprised by the scenes of the teenage Mary sharing a bed…

Elizabeth I had a very special piece of jewellery commissioned in around 1575, a piece that would mean so much…

Today’s post is the first about two sisters (or rather half-sisters): Mary and Elizabeth, their relationship as children and what…

 Today we are honoured to have another guest post, this time from Robert Parry, author of the wonderful novel “The…

This post has been sparked off by the wonderful novel that I’m reading at the moment – “The Virgin and…

Many Tudor history buffs have heard of ladies like Kat Ashley and Bess Throckmorton, who served Queen Elizabeth I, but…