Under These Restless Skies

Seven or eight thousand people crowded the Tower green on a cold February morning. It was the day before Valentine's Day, 1542, and ...

On February 7th 1542, ambassador Eustace Chapuys reports that the ladies Katheryn Howard had been allowed to keep with her through these d...

Katheryn Howard was doomed, and it seems she knew it. As with much of the Tudor era,  Eustace Chapuys , the Imperial ambassador, is the g...

In early November of 1541, the king was passed a note after mass. His councilors were so afraid of his reaction to its contents that t...