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Month & Day	Year & Event
January 1st	1511 - Katherine of Aragon gave birth to a son 1515 - King Louis XII of France died, Charles Brandon is sent to escort Mary Tudor home 1540 - Henry VIII met Anne of Cleves for the first time; she did not recognize him
January 2nd
January 3rd
January 4th
January 5th	1511 - Katherine of Aragon's and Henry VIII's son was baptized
January 6th	1540 - Henry VIII married Anne of Cleves
January 7th	1536 - Queen Katherine of Aragon died 1558 - England lost Calais to the French
January 8th
January 9th
January 10th
January 11th	1542 - Henry VIII and Charles V agreed to jointly attack France
January 12th	1510 - Henry VIII entered his first joust as a King 1539 - Francis I and Charles V signed the Peace of Toledo
January 13th	1559 - Queen Elizabeth I crowned queen of England
January 14th	1539 - Nicholas Carew convicted of treason
January 15th
January 16th	1549 - Thomas Seymour arrested
January 17th
January 18th	1486 - King Henry VII married Elizabeth of York
January 19th	1547 - Earl of Surrey, Henry Howard, beheaded
January 20th
January 21st	1510 - The first parliament of Henry VIII's reign met
January 22nd	1511 - Henry VIII's and Katherine of Aragon's son dies 1528 - Henry VIII declared war on Charles V 1552 - Edward Seymour was executed
January 23rd	1516 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon died 1516- Charles V becomes King of Spain
January 24th	1536 - Henry VIII knocked unconscious in a jousting accident
January 25th	1533 - King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn in secret
January 26th
January 27th
January 28th	1457 - King Henry VII was born 1547 - King Henry VIII died 1547 - Thomas Howard to be executed, saved by Henry VIII's death
January 29th	1536 - Anne Boleyn gave birth to a stillborn son 1536 - The funeral of Queen Katherine of Aragon
January 30th
February 1st
February 2nd
February 3rd	1537 - Thomas FitzGerald executed
February 4th	1520 - Mary Boleyn married William Carey 1540 - Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves traveled in state to Westminster
February 5th
February 6th
February 7th	1478 - Sir Thomas More was born 1526 - Henry VIII made his love for Anne Boleyn publicly known in the Shrove Tuesday jousts 1527 - Francis Bryan lost his eye in the Shrove Tuesday jousts 1531 - Henry VIII demanded the clergy to recognize him as the Supreme Head
February 8th	1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots was executed 1601 - Essex's Rebellion
February 9th
February 10th	1503 - Elizabeth of York died 1542 - Katherine Howard taken to the Tower of London 1567 - Lord Darnley murdered
February 11th
February 12th	1554 - Lady Jane Grey and her husband Guildford Dudley were executed
February 13th	1542 - Katherine Howard and Jane Boleyn were executed
February 14th
February 15th
February 16th
February 7th
February 18th	1516 - Mary I was born
February 19th
February 20th	1547 - King Edward VI crowned
February 21st	1516 - Mary Tudor is baptized
February 22nd	1511 - Prince Henry son of Katherine of Aragon and Henry VIII died
February 23rd
February 24th	1500 - Emperor Charles V was born 1525 - Richard de la Pole killed in the Battle of Pavia
February 25th	1570 - Elizabeth I excommunicated by the Pope 1601 - Robert Devereux executed for treason
February 26th
February 27th	1545 - Battle of Ancrum Moor 1548 - Cranmer ordered that candles, ashes, and palms cease to be used at Lent
February 28th
February 29th
March 1st
March 2nd
March 3rd	1516 - Margaret Tudor returns to the Tudor court 1547 - Francis I died
March 4th
March 5th	1496 - Henry VII commissions the Cabots to explore the New World 1549 - Act of Attainder passed against Baron Sudeley
March 6th
March 7th	1530 - Pope Clement VII forbade Henry VIII from marrying Anne Boleyn
March 8th	1539 - Nicholas Carew beheaded 1551 - Hooper made Bishop of Gloucester
March 9th	1525 - Henry VIII first heard news of Richard de la Pole's death and ordered a Te Deum in London
March 10th	1524 - Henry VIII nearly seriously injured in a joust against the Duke of Suffolk
March 11th
March 12th	1538/9 - Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire died
March 13th
March 14th
March 15th	1532 - Henry VIII's clergy surrendered their legislative power to him
March 16th	1532 - Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England 1534 - Church of England breaks allegiance from Pope
March 17th
March 18th	1496 - Princess Mary Tudor was born, sister of Henry VIII 1554- Princess Elizabeth Tudor is imprisoned in the Tower of London
March 19th
March 20th	1549 - Thomas Seymour was executed
March 21st	1556 - Thomas Cranmer was burned at the stake
March 22nd
March 23rd	1534 - An Act of Succession is passed recognizing the rights of the children of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn to succeed the throne 1540 - Waltham Abbey, the last surviving monastery in England, was surrendered to Henry VIII
March 24th	1543 - Thomas Cranmer accused of heresy, Cranmer later convinces Henry of his innocence 1603 - Elizabeth I died
March 25th
March 26th
March 27th
March 28th
March 29th
March 30th	1533 - Thomas Cranmer made Archbishop of Canterbury
April 1st
April 2nd	1502 - Prince Arthur Tudor died
April 3rd	1546 - To improve morals, Henry VIII closed the brothels in Southwark
April 4th
April 5th	1515 - Franco-English alliance back on 1533 - Convocation ruled that Henry VIII's and Katherine Aragon's marriage was invalid
April 6th	1590 - Francis Walsingham died 1533 - Bishop Fisher arrested
April 7th
April 8th
April 9th	1533 - Henry VIII ordered Katherine of Aragon to cease using the title Queen
April 10th	1550 - Edward Seymour readmitted to the King's council
April 11th	1512 - Margaret Tudor gave birth to Prince James 1554 - Thomas Wyatt the Younger was executed
April 12th	1533 - Anne Boleyn declared Queen 1534 - Thomas More was ordered to take the oath of succession
April 13th
April 14th
April 15th
April 16th
April 17th	1534 - Thomas More taken to the Tower for refusing to take the oath of succession
April 18th	1540 - Thomas Cromwell became Earl of Essex
April 19th
April 20th	1534 - Prominent non-clerical Londoners given the oath of succession 1534 - Elizabeth Baron and her followers executed
April 21st	1509 - King Henry VII dies, this news is kept secret 1509 - King Henry VIII ascends the throne
April 22nd
April 23rd	1549 - Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius arrive in England
April 24th	1509 - Henry VIII is officially proclaimed king. He orders the arrests of two unpopular ministers of his father's, Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley 1546 - Henry VIII chartered the English Navy 1558 - Mary Stuart married Dauphin Francois
April 25th
April 26th
April 27th
April 28th
April 29th
April 30th	1517 - The riots known as "Evil May Day" began 1527 - Treaty of Westminster was signed 1536 - Mark Smeaton was arrested 1546 - Henry VIII ordered the brothels in Southwark to be closed in order to "improve morals"
May 1st
May 2nd	1536 - Anne Boleyn, and George Boleyn were arrested 1550 - Joan of Kent burned at the stake for heresy
May 3rd	1544 - Thomas Wriothesley made lord chancellor
May 4th	1547 - Catherine Parr and Thomas Seymour married
May 5th
May 6th	1527 - Sack of Rome 1541 - Henry VIII ordered a new Bible placed in every church
May 7th
May 8th	1539 - Henry VIII mustered 15,000 men in response to the Peace of Toledo
May 9th	1509 - Henry VII's body taken to St. Paul's
May 10th	1533 -The Dunstable Priory inquisition into the validity of Henry VIII's and Katherine of Aragon's marriage
May 11th	1500 - Reginald Pole was born
May 12th	1521 - Martin Luther's books were burned by Bishop Fisher at Paul's Cross
May 13th	1516 - Princess Mary Tudor married Charles Brandon at Greenwich
May 14th	1517 - Those arrested in the "Evil May Day" riots were paraded before the King, Queen, and their court in halters
May 15th	1532 - The clergy turned over its legislative independence to the Crown 1536 - Anne Boleyn and George Boleyn were found guilty of treason 1567 - Mary Staurt married James Hepburn
May 16th	1517 - Margaret Tudor returned to Scotland 1532 - Sir Thomas More resigned as Chancellor of England
May 17th	1521 - Edward Stafford was executed 1527 - Cardinal Wolsey began a secret court to determine whether Henry VIII was unlawfully married to Katherine of Aragon 1536 - George Boleyn , Mark Smeaton, William Brereton Henry Norris & Francis Weston were executed; Anne Boleyn's marriage to Henry VIII declared invalid
May 18th	1536 - Henry VIII engaged to Jane Seymour
May 19th	1499 - Queen Katherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Prince Arthur 1536 - Anne Boleyn was executed 1539 - Henry VIII given the right to all of the monasteries 1554- Queen Mary I released Princess Elizabeth from the Tower of London 1568 - Elizabeth I imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots
May 20th	1536 - King Henry VIII betrothed to Jane Seymour
May 21st	1527 - Philip II was born 1553 - Jane Grey married Guildford Dudley
May 22nd	1538 - Friar John Forrest burned at the stake, the only Catholic to burn during Henry VIII's reign
May 23rd	1533 - King Henry VIII & Queen Katherine of Aragon's marriage annulled by Thomas Cranmer
May 24th
May 25th	1551- London shaken by a great eathquake
May 26th	1520 - Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon met with Charles V at Dover
May 27th	1541 - Lady Margaret Pole was executed
May 28th	1533 - King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage publicly announced
May 29th	1522 - Henry VIII declared war on France 1599 - Essex's army was defeated at Deputy's Pass
May 30th May 31st	1536 - King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour 1529 - The Court at Blackfriars opened 1533 - Anne Boleyn begins her procession from the Tower to Whitehall Palace for her coronation
June 1st	1519 - Henry Fitzroy, acknowledged to be King Henry VIII's son, was baptized. 1533 - Anne Boleyn was crowned Queen
June 2nd
June 3rd
June 4th	1536 - Jane Seymour proclaimed Queen
June 5th
June 6th	1520 - The Field of Cloth of Gold 1522 - Henry VIII and Charles V entered London to great fanfare to plan war against France 1549 - Protestations in Cornwall against the new Book of Common Prayer
June 7th	1525 - Henry Fitzroy was made Knight of the Garter
June 8th
June 9th
June 10th	1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested for high treason
June 11th	1509 - Henry VIII married Katherine of Aragon
June 12th
June 13th
June 14th
June 15th	1519 - Henry Fitzroy was born 1567 - Battle Carberry Hill
June 16th	1487 - Battle of Stoke
June 17th	1497 - Battle of Blackheath
June 18th	1525 - Henry Fitzroy made Duke of Richmond and Somerset, and Lieutenant-General of the North 1529 - Katherine of Aragon reputed the ability of the Court at Blackfriars to try her 1541 - The Irish Parliament changed Henry's title from Lord of Ireland to King of Ireland
June 19th	1540 - Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex arrested & imprisoned 1544 - The Siege of Boulogne began 1566 - King James VI was born
June 20th
June 21st	1529 - Katherine of Aragon fell upon her knees before Henry VIII at the Court of Blackfriars to proclaim her loyalty
June 22nd	1527 - Henry VIII informed Katherine of Aragon that they were not man and wife 1535 - Bishop Fisher was executed 1536 - Princess Mary acknowledged herself a bastard
June 23rd	1535 - Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon leave the Tower of London for their coronation at Westminster Abbey
June 24th	1509 -Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon are jointly crowned 1533 - Henry's sister Mary Tudor died
June 25th	1529 - Katherine of Aragon was found in contempt of the court of Blackfriars for not attending
June 26th
June 27th
June 28th	1491 - King Henry VIII was born 1519 - Charles V elected Holy Roman Emperor 1541 - Leonard Grey executed 1546 - Anne Askew convicted of heresy
June 29th	1509 - Lady Margaret Beaufort died 1540 - Thomas Cromwell found guilty of treason by attainder
June 30th	1537 - Lord Darcy beheaded 1541 - Henry VIII and Katherine Howard go on Henry's first northern progress 1551 - Dr. Wooton defends Princess Mary's commitment to Catholicism to the Council
July 1st	1536 - Mary and Elizabeth declared illegitimate by Parliament 1543 - The Treaties of Greenwich are signed, approving of a marriage between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots
July 2nd	1489 - Thomas Cranmer was born
July 3rd
July 4th
July 5th
July 6th	1535 - Thomas More was executed 1553 - King Edward VI died
July 7th
July 8th	1549 - Robert Kett leads a protest march against the new Book of Common Prayer
July 9th	1540 - King Henry VIII & Anne of Cleves' marriage dissolved 1551 - English currency is further debased
July 10th	1553 - Jane Grey declared queen of England
July 11th	1531 - Henry VIII left on royal progress without Katherine of Aragon, marking the last time they saw one another. 1533 - Pope Clement VII ordered Henry VIII to abandon Anne Boleyn; a bull of excommunication was drawn up but suspended in hopes the King would obey the Clement's ruling
July 12th	1537 - Robert Aske executed 1543 - King Henry VIII married Catherine Parr 1549 - Kett's Rebellion
July 13th
July 14th	1514 - Cardinal Christopher Bainbridge died 1544 - Henry VIII arrived in Calais for the Siege of Boulogne
July 15th
July 16th	1546 - Anne Askew burned at the stake
July 17th
July 18th	1509 - Edmund Dudley convicted of treason
July 19th	1545 - The English navy engaged the French navy near the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth, the Mary Rose sunk 1551 - Marriage arranged between Henry III of France's daughter Elizabeth and King Edward
July 20th
July 21st	1553 - John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, arrested
July 22nd	1536 - Henry Fitzroy died 1549 - Robert Kett and his fellow protests attack and occupy Norwich
July 23rd
July 24th	1567 - Mary Queen of Scots abdicaticated
July 25th	1554 - Queen Mary I and Prince Philip married
July 26th
July 27th
July 28th	1540 - King Henry VIII married Katherine Howard 1540 - Sir Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex executed
July 29th	1565 - Mary Queen of Scots married Lord Darnley
July 30th
July 31st
August 1st
August 2nd	1521 - Wolsey arrived in Calais to act as a peacemaker between France and the Holy Roman Empire
August 3rd	1549 - John Russell and William Grey attack rebels at Clyst St Mary
August 4th	1549 - John Russell and William Grey continue to attack rebels at Clyst St Mary
August 5th	1549 - John Russell and William Grey continue to attack rebels at Clyst St Mary
August 6th	1514 - Margaret Tudor married Archibald Douglas
August 7th	1514 - Henry VIII signed a treaty in which his sister Mary would marry the King of France 1549 - Mary, Queen of Scots sails for France
August 8th	1503 - Princess Margaret Tudor married King James IV 1588 - Defeat of the Spanish Armada
August 9th
August 10th	1512 - Henry VIII's ship the Regent sunk in flames
August 11th	1534 - The Friars Observant evicted from their religious house
August 12th
August 13th
August 14th
August 15th	1550 - Due to religious policies, London was greatly divided on whether or not to celebrate this Assumption Day
August 16th	1513 - Henry's VIII's forces win the Battle of the Spurs 1531 - Thomas Bilney burned for distributing Tyndale's Bible
August 17th	1510 - Edmund Dudley was executed
August 18th	1514 - Mary Tudor marries Louis XII by proxy 1527 - A new treaty was made between France and England, which included the promising of Mary Tudor to the Duke of Orleans 1549 - Battle of Samford Courteney
August 19th
August 20th
August 21st
August 22nd	1485 - Battle of Bosworth Field 1532 - Archbishop Warham of Canterbury died 1545 - Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk died
August 23rd
August 24th	1535 - Thomas FitzGerald surrendered to English forces 1572 - St. Bartholemew's Day Massacre
August 25th	1549 - Warwick's troops attacked and entered Norwich
August 26th
August 27th
August 28th
August 29th	1538 - Geoffrey Pole was arrested on suspicion of being in contact with his brother, Reginald Pole
August 30th	1525 - Treaty of the More signed
August 31st
September 1st	1532 - Anne Boleyn made Marquess of Pembroke
September 2nd
September 3rd
September 4th	1539 - King Henry VIII betrothed to Anne of Cleves
September 5th	1548 - Catherine Parr died
September 6th	1525 - Peace declared between England and France
September 7th	1533 - Princess Elizabeth Tudor was born 1533 - Robert Dudley was born
September 8th	1560 - Amy Robsart, wife of Robert Dudley, found dead
September 9th	1513 - Battle of Flodden, James IV dies on the field
September 10th	1533 - Princess Elizabeth Tudor was baptised at Greenwich
September 11th
September 12th
September 13th
September 14th
September 15th
September 16th	1541 - Henry VIII arrived in York, but was not able to meet with James V
September 17th
September 18th	1544 - Henry VIII rides triumphantly through Boulogne
September 19th
September 20th	1486 - Prince Arthur Tudor was born 1545 - Henry VIII's health has declined to the point where the royal stamp is now affixed to documents requiring his signature
September 21st	1578 - Robert Dudley married Lettice Knollys
September 22nd	1515 - Anne of Cleves born
September 23rd
September 24th
September 25th	1506 - King Philip I of Castile "the Fair" died 1534 - Pope Clement VII died
September 26th
September 27th
September 28th
September 29th
September 30th	1515 - Margaret Tudor fled to England 1544 - Henry VIII returned back to England from his triumph in Boulogne
October 1st	1549 - Edmund Bonner removed from his position as Bishop of London for speaking out against new religious legislation 1549 - Edward Seymour moves King Edward from Hampton Court to Windsor Castle after hearing of plots against him 1553 - Queen Mary I crowned queen of England
October 2nd	1501 - Katherine of Aragon arrived in Plymouth, England 1514 - Mary Tudor sets off for France
October 3rd
October 4th	1518 - A treaty is signed between France and England that includes a betrothal between Princess Mary and the young dauphin 1539 - Henry VIII agreed to marry Anne of Cleves
October 5th	1518 - Princess Mary Tudor and the Dauphin were officially betrothed
October 6th	1536 - William Tyndale executed for heresy
October 7th
October 8th	1514 - Mary Tudor meet Louis XII and their marriage was celebrated
October 9th	1514 - Princess Mary Tudor married King Louis XII 1529 - Wolsey indicted for using his power illegally 1536 - The Pilgrimage of Grace began
October 10th	1549 - Edward Seymour surrenders his position at Windsor Castle
October 11th	1521 - Henry VIII proclaimed "Defender of the Faith" 1532 - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn go to Calais 1537 - A procession marches through London to pray for Jane Seymour's deliverance from a difficult labor 1542 - Thomas Wyatt died 1551 - Earl of Warwick made the Duke of Northumberland 1537 - Lady Jane Grey was born
October 12th	1537 - Prince Edward Tudor born
October 13th	1534 - Alexander Farnese was elected Pope Paul III 1549 - The Protectorate comes to an end
October 14th
October 15th	1537 - Prince Edward Tudor was baptized
October 16th	1551 - Edward Seymour arrested for high treason 1555 - Hugh Latimer burned
October 17th
October 18th	1529 - Wolsey ordered to hand over the great seal 1541 - Princess Margaret Tudor died
October 19th
October 20th	1536 - Thomas Darcy surrendered Pontefract Castle to Robert Aske, then joined the leadership of the Pilgrimage of Grace
October 21st	1542 - The Duke of Norfolk attacked Scotland
October 22nd
October 23rd
October 24th	1537 - Jane Seymour died 1542- James V led an attack into England
October 25th	1529 - Thomas More became Chancellor of England 1532 - Henry VIII and Francis I return to Calais, where Anne Boleyn performed in a masque with six others
October 26th	1529 - Thomas More took the oath of the Chancellor of Engalnd 1536 - Talks began between the Duke of Norfolk and Robert Aske began
October 27th
October 28th
October 29th
October 30th	1485 - King Henry VII crowned king of England
October 31st	1517 - Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses
November 1st
November 2nd	1541 - Henry VIII was informed that Katherine Howard was involved in two affairs before their marriage
November 3rd
November 4th	1530 - Wolsey was arrested 1538 - Margaret Pole, Henry Pole, and Henry Courtenay were arrested
November 5th	1514 - Mary Tudor crowned queen of France
November 6th	1515 - Mary Tudor triumphantly entered Paris 1541 - Henry VIII abandoned Katherine Howard at Hampton Court
November 7th
November 8th	1541 - Katherine Howard admitted to the accusations against her to Thomas Cranmer
November 9th	1518 - During the night and into the next day, Katherine of Aragon gives birth to a stillborn daughter, her last pregnancy. 1569 - Northern Rebellion begins
November 10th
November 11th
November 12th	1532 - Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn set sail for England from Calais 1537 - Jane Seymour's body moved from Hampton Court to St. George's Chapel
November 13th
November 14th	1501 - Prince Arthur Tudor married Katherine of Aragon
November 15th
November 16th	1537 - Cluniac house at Lewes monastery surrendered its lands - the dissolutions of the larger monasteries thus began
November 17th	1558 - Mary I died Elizabeth I ascended the throne
November 18th	1523 - Cardinal Giulio de' Medici became Pope Clement VII
November 19th
November 20th	1543 - Hans Holbein died from plague
November 21st	1548 - Tower of London catches afire due to a barrel of gunpowder, one prisoner dies
November 22nd
November 23rd	1499 - Perkin Warbeck was executed 1533 - The Benedictine nun Elizabeth Barton publicly denounced at Paul's Cross
November 24th	1504 - Queen Isabella of Castille died
November 25th	1487 - Elizabeth of York crowned queen of England 1533 - Henry Fitzroy married Mary Howard 1542 - Battle of Soloway
November 26th
November 27th
November 28th
November 29th	1489 - Princess Margaret Tudor was born 1530 - Thomas Wolsey died
November 30th
December 1st	1521 - Pope Leo X died 1541 - Francis Dereham and Thomas Culpepper convicted of treason 1551 - Edward Seymour put on trial for treason
December 2nd
December 3rd	1536 - Pilgrims of Grace drew together a list of grievances for Henry VIII
December 4th
December 5th
December 6th
December 7th
December 8th	1542 - Mary Queen of Scots born
December 9th	1538 - Henry Pole and Edward Courtenay were beheaded
December 10th	1541 - Francis Dereham drawn and quartered, and Thomas Culpepper beheaded
December 11th	1543 - Scottish Parliament broke the marriage alliance between Mary, Queen of Scots and Prince Edward
December 12th	1546 - The Duke of Norfolk and Henry Howard were arrested
December 13th
December 14th	1542 - James V of Scotland died, week-old daughter Mary became Queen of Scotland
December 15th	1485 - Queen Katherine of Aragon was born
December 16th
December 17th
December 18th
December 19th	1542 - Noble survivors of James V's expedition into England paraded through London
December 20th
December 21st
December 22nd	1515 - Archbishop Warhap resigned from the lord chancellorship of Canterbury 1590 - King James VI and Anne of Denmark married
December 23rd	1527 - Clement VII gave Henry VIII a dispensation to marry again, but did not state that Henry and Katherine of Aragon's marriage had been invalid
December 24th	1515 - Thomas Wolsey rises to the lord chancellorship of Canterbury 1541 - A fire broke out in John Williams's, the master of the jewels house, and in the hubbub, many of the royal jewels were stolen 1601 - Battle of Kinsale
December 25th	1528 - Henry VIII spends Christmas with Anne Boleyn at Greenwich 1530 - Henry VIII spends Christmas with Katherine of Aragon at Greenwich
December 26th
December 27th	1539 - Anne of Cleves arrived at Deal for her marriage to Henry VIII 1542 - Captured Scotsmen swore allegiance to Henry VIII and swore to uphold the marriage agreement between Prince Edward and Mary, Queen of Scots

December 28th
December 29th
December 30th	1546 - Henry VIII approved a new version of his will
December 31st

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HistoricQueen3

Queen Bess and Dudley!

Monday, 2:21 PM EST by BoleynGirl

Thread started: Aug 14 2009, 12:37 PM EDT Watch

I was reading this, and saw that Elizabeth and her later lover Robert Dudley were both born on the same day, in the same year!!!

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s.rochie

Jane Grey's birthplace

Jul 14 2009, 6:54 AM EDT by LadyJaneGrey.Faithxx

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Just to remember and spare a thought for Jane Grey, the Gand Niece of Henry VIII. On this day 456 years ago the fifteen-year-old Jane would have woken up in her bed in the luxurious State Apartments of the Tower of London knowing that she had become Queen of England, against her wishes. The reign lasted just 9 days before those very same people, including her own father, who had put the crown upon her head then suddenly turned from her and proclaimed Mary Tudor as Queen instead - basically in an effort to save their own skins.
When some months later Jane was beheaded on Tower Green the grounds men at her childhood home of Bradgate Hall in Leicestershire lopped off all the heads of the great oak trees in the parkland.
There is a wonderful spooky picture of Bradgate as it looks today here:
http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Leicestershire/Leicester/pictures/1080493
And some interesting stuff on the Victorian obsession with Jane Grey, and her story here:
http://www.squidoo.com/jane-grey
How would you feel, as a 15 year-old girl in Tudor England, if you were married against you wishes (as Jane was to Guildford Dudley in 1553) and then taken to the Tower and presented with the Crown? You are told that you must now be Queen of England, and that you should ignore the fact that outside the people are already beginning to stir uneasily and that not too far away the rightful Queen was already mustering an army to overthrow you and much of the country was in uproar over your audacity! Would you feel confused, frightened, angry?

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TheLadyNatalie

Today, 456 years ago

Jul 11 2009, 7:17 AM EDT by BoleynGirl

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Lady Jane Grey was Proclaimed Queen.

...just thought I'd share that

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