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15 January 2026 Four hundred and fifty-seven years ago, on 15 January 1569, at Hampton Court Palace, Lady Catherine Knollys died after a year marked by recurring bouts of illness and fever. Although she had been unwell during the previous summer, she eventually rallied sufficiently to attend Queen Elizabeth I’s Christmas celebrations, as was expected…
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The Gower Portrait (c1590) Lettice Knollys was acutely conscious of her lineage and social standing, described by contemporaries as beautiful, elegant, proud, and ambitious. In the Tudor world, portraiture functioned not merely as likeness, but as visual rhetoric. Symbolism functioned as a sophisticated and widely understood language among the political and cultural elite. Allegory—rather than…
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The question of Henry Carey’s paternity has long been approached through the narrow lens of public acknowledgment. Because King Henry VIII never formally recognized Henry Carey as his son, many historians have assumed that Carey must therefore have been the legitimate child of Mary Boleyn’s husband, William Carey. Yet this conclusion rests on a modern…
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12 Dec 2025 Henry VIII (1491–1547), the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, ruled England from 1509 until his death. His reign is among the most transformative—and contentious—in English history. Though often remembered for his six marriages, his lasting legacy was political and religious: a decisive break with the Roman Catholic Church and the creation…
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