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The Execution of Thomas Seymour

ā€¦Seymour began a campaign to undermine his brother and loosen his hold on their nephew, Edward VI. An informant told Seymour that the young King often complained about his lackā€¦

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The Imprisonment of Elizabeth

ā€¦read a transcript of the Tide Letter. Video from TheBullen1ā€™s YouTubeChannel There is also a wonderful clip from Elizabeth R, starring Glenda Jackson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdSWbJEr-wg To the Tower On Palmā€¦

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Elizabeth I: The Speechmaker

ā€¦who would not have any trouble with an Oscar acceptance speech, even if it was completely off-the-cuff! Elizabeth definitely had a way with words and also the knack of makingā€¦

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Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour ā€“ Part Two

ā€¦in hyr Bed, he wold put open the Curteyns, and bid hir good morrow, and make as though he wold come at hir: And she wold go further in theā€¦

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Did Robert Dudley Murder Amy Robsart?

ā€¦come up with a conclusion. As someone who does not have any medical knowledge or expertise in pathology, apart from watching CSI or Silent Witness (!), I canā€™t come upā€¦

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The Rose Theatre

ā€¦Trust at www.rosetheatre.org.uk. You can see a model of the Rose Theatre at theMuseum of London website and a picture of a Shakespearian shoes found at the site at http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/English/News/Current/Shakesperianshoes.htmā€¦

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Mary Queen of Scots ā€“ Part One

ā€¦To commemorate her execution, I thought it would be good to look at her fall, trial, execution and just why she was executed by a fellow sovereign. The Fall ofā€¦

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Plots Against Elizabeth I

ā€¦ā€œHow Fat Was Henry VIII? And 101 Other Questions on Royal Historyā€. This book also examines ā€œWas Amy Robsart, Lady Dudley, murdered by a queenā€™s Command?ā€ and ā€œWho was theā€¦

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Taking On the Bard

ā€¦knew I would feel comfortable in late fifteenth century Italy.Ā  My last historical novel, Signora da Vinci, had been set there.Ā  For that book I had outdone myself in researchingā€¦

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Cecilā€™s Fast and Elizabeth Iā€™s Navy

ā€¦it is that it gives you an idea of what life was like for the common people, rather than court life or the life of the rich. Itā€™s so goodā€¦

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Elizabeth Iā€™s Coronation Chart

ā€¦Sources http://elizabethsastrologer.ash.com/index.html ā€“ Sarah Rochelā€™s site on Astrology in the reign of Elizabeth I http://johndee.ash.com/index.html ā€“ A site all about Elizabeth Iā€™s astrologer John Dee, a fascinating man. http://www.skyscript.co.uk/qe1.html ā€“ā€¦

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Happy New Year!

ā€¦all of you.I hope that 2010 will see us establishing a great community of Elizabeth I fans and having some great debates about her. My interest in Elizabeth I grewā€¦

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Elizabeth I ā€“ Englandā€™s Greatest Monarch?

ā€¦as Rochie said in her comment a few weeks ago, look at Elizabeth Iā€™s achievements, after all, isnā€™t that the way she should be remembered. Letā€™s give Good Queen Bessā€¦

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Elizabeth, Seymour and Shakespeare

ā€¦a child and if you start studying the literature, there were rumours coming directly from Elizabeth that she had had a child.ā€ Although in her letters, Elizabeth condemned the rumoursā€¦

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Superstition

ā€¦greatest works of art and remains a vehicle for self-exploration and understanding. It also helps us to ask questions. ā€˜What star sign are you?ā€™ In this sense astrology does notā€¦

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Elizabeth I: Fortuneā€™s Bastard by Richard Rex

ā€¦the English imagination for one of the formative phases of English history. Her reign saw England transformed, at her command, from a Catholic to a Protestant country, with incalculable consequencesā€¦

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The Arthur Dudley Myth

ā€¦the subject of books and documentaries, a man who some say was the illegitimate son of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley. I decided to research the story after Jennifer commentedā€¦

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Elizabeth I ā€“ A Virago, Genetically Male or Simply a Strong woman?

ā€¦ā€“ This can be purchased from http://www.sciencedirect.com/ for $31.50, just search for the title or author. ā€œElizabeth the Queenā€ by Alison Weir ā€œThe Sisters Who Would be Queenā€ by Leandaā€¦

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The Bisley Boy

ā€¦downloaded at EbooksRead.com, but I will give a synopsis of the story here and why some people have given credence to this conspiracy theory ā€“ Stoker seemed to be convincedā€¦

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The Friday Review

Hereā€™s a quick review of the latest news here at the Elizabeth files and in the Tudor world, please comment if you have heard of any Tudor events, book releases,ā€¦