Transactions

Transactions
Author: East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society
Publisher:
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1906
Genre: Hertfordshire (England)
ISBN:

Hertfordshire Houses

Hertfordshire Houses
Author: J. T. Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1993
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN:

A companion volume to the author's English Houses 1200-1800: The Hertfordshire Evidence (published by HMSO) which provides evidence for the conclusions presented in that book.

The Other Tudor Princess

The Other Tudor Princess
Author: Mary McGrigor
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2015-01-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0750963190

The Other Tudor Princess brings to life the story of Margaret Douglas, a shadowy and mysterious character in Tudor history – but who now takes centre stage in this tale of the bitter struggle for power during the reign of Henry VIII. Margaret is Henry's beloved niece, but she defies the king by indulging in two scandalous affairs and is imprisoned in the Tower of London on three occasions 'not for matters of treason, but for love'. Yet, when Henry turns against his second wife Anne Boleyn and declares his daughters, Mary and Elizabeth, bastards, it is Margaret he appoints as his heir to the throne. The arrangement of the marriage of Margaret's son, Lord Darnley, to his cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots unites their claim to the throne and infuriates Queen Elizabeth. Yet this match brings tragedy, as Margaret's son is brutally murdered. As Margaret reaches old age, her place in the dynasty is still not safe, and she dies in mysterious circumstances – was Margaret poisoned on the orders of Queen Elizabeth? Mary McGrigor tells this compelling and exciting part of Tudor history for the first time with all the passion and thrill of a novel, but this is no fiction – the untold story runs through the course of history, and Margaret secured the throne for her Stuart ancestors for years to come.

Katherine the Queen

Katherine the Queen
Author: Linda Porter
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1429918306

The general perception of Katherine Parr is that she was a provincial nobody with intellectual pretensions who became queen of England because the king needed a nurse as his health declined. Yet the real Katherine Parr was attractive, passionate, ambitious, and highly intelligent. Thirty-years-old (younger than Anne Boleyn had been) when she married the king, she was twice widowed and held hostage by the northern rebels during the great uprising of 1536-37 known as the Pilgrimage of Grace. Her life had been dramatic even before she became queen and it would remain so after Henry's death. She hastily and secretly married her old flame, the rakish Sir Thomas Seymour, and died shortly after giving birth to her only child in September 1548. Her brief happiness was undermined by the very public flirtation of her husband and step-daughter, Princess Elizabeth. She was one of the most influential and active queen consorts in English history, and this is her story.