POV: You’re on Hinge in 1533 and this guy’s bio says he’s “looking for a queen who can keep her cool under pressure.” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
Henry VIII really pioneered the “it’s not you, it’s me (and my sudden need for a male heir)” breakup style.
#redflags #tudorhistory #historytime #darkhistory #historymemes
👑 She was sent to marry a king… but will she survive him?
The Swan Maiden by G. Lawrence brings Anna of Cleves to life in a gripping Tudor tale of fear, duty, and survival.
Read more: maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...
#HistoricalFiction #BookTwitter #TudorHistory @glawrence.bsky.social
Tudor villains...but not as you know them.
Starts 13 April - a few places left.
Go to ClaireRidgway.com
#TudorHistory #Tudors #henryviii #ElizabethI
📚💙 On this day in 1559, Elizabeth I’s coronation medals were circulating across the realm, shaping the image of a new queen in a newly Protestant England.
#ElizabethI
#TudorHistory
#ElizabethanEra
#History
#EarlyModernHistory
Anne Boleyn wasn’t just waiting in the background for six years, she was part of the story that changed England forever.
From papal politics to royal power,this is the real story of the Great Matter.
Full video on YouTube.
#AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #HenryVIII #greatmatter #WomenInHistory
Before she was Queen, she was a daughter bound by duty…
Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters reveals the untold early life of Katherine of Aragon.
🔗 maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2026/04/fall...
#HistoricalFiction #TudorHistory #BookSky #HistFic @wendyjdunn.bsky.social
📚💙 On This Day, 4 April 1581:
Francis Drake was knighted aboard the Golden Hind at Deptford, honoured for completing his circumnavigation of the globe.
#History
#OTD
#TudorHistory
#Elizabethan
#FrancisDrake
Good Friday in Tudor England was a day of deep devotion, and powerful ritual.
From “creeping to the cross” to royal healing ceremonies under Mary I, faith was something people experienced with their whole bodies.
Watch the full video on YouTube.
#GoodFriday #TudorHistory #MaryI #Reformation
💙📚 On this day in 1538, Elizabeth Boleyn, mother of Queen Anne Boleyn, died after witnessing the tragic fall of her family in 1536. Her death marked the quiet end of a woman who stood at the centre of Tudor court life.
#TudorHistory
#ElizabethBoleyn
#BoleynFamily
#OTDHistory
#TudorDynasty
Richard III: The Tudor Narrative — Shakespeare’s villain or Tudor propaganda? Was Richard condemned by victors, not truth?
Read the full post on YouTube www.youtube.com/post/UgkxsF6...
#HistoricalMystery #RichardIII #TudorHistory #MedievalDrama
💙📚 31 March 1532: Friar William Peto preached before Henry VIII at Greenwich and compared him to King Ahab for casting aside Catherine of Aragon. He likened Anne Boleyn to Jezebel. The sermon nearly cost him his life.
#TudorHistory
#HenryVIII
#AnneBoleyn
#OnThisDay
#jezebel
New Substack is out! I wrote about Dylan Mulvaney and Anne Boleyn. #transdayofvisibility #womenshistorymonth #tudorhistory #sixbroadway open.substack.com/pub/clemency...
In this biography, the story of James VI and I is laid bare, and a welter of scurrilous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest.
💻️: https://tinyurl.com/38rxm9vv
#jamesvi #biography #tudorhistory
Launching a new site called Suffolk Wills, which has two aims: to publish transcripts of wills from Suffolk, 1490-1620, and analyse the wills to see how they changed or varied from pre- to post-Reformation. suffolkwills.org
#TudorHistory #16thC #Tudors
📚💙 John Dee advised Elizabeth I, pursued alchemy and was the royal court’s astrologer, and built one of England’s greatest libraries.
#TudorHistory #HistoryLovers #BritishHistory #RenaissanceHistory #OnThisDay
“Richly researched and beautifully told, Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman captures the hidden lives of the Elizabethan world.”
mybook.to/BESS
#Elizabethan #Tudors #TudorHistory #HistFic #HistoricalFiction #Audiobooks
💙📚 On this day in 1534, Pope Clement VII confirmed Catherine of Aragon as Henry VIII’s true wife and Mary as his heir, while Parliament recognised Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth instead.
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#HenryVIII
#AnneBoleyn
#CatherineOfAragon
#EnglishReformation
💙📚 This portrait of Henry VIII was painted in 1540 which is when the king met Anne of Cleves. He famously declared himself disappointed with her appearance.
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#HenryVIII
#AnneOfCleves
#EarlyModernEurope
#RoyalMarriages
💙📚 20th March 1549: Thomas Seymour was executed for treason after plotting to control Edward VI and acting against the his brother the Lord Protector.
#ThomasSeymour #TudorHistory #EdwardVl
#CatherineParr #TudorEngland
💙📚 This week I am attending a course about Anne Boleyn. Dr Owen Emmerson noted that Anne Boleyn used about thirty different spellings of her own name because spelling did not have rules in Tudor England.
#AnneBoleyn #TudorHistory #SixteenthCentury #HistoricalResearch #HistoryMatters
The Sweating Sickness: The Mysterious Tudor Epidemic That Killed Thousands #HistoryMystery #DarkHistory #TudorHistory #DiseaseHistory #DidYouKnow www.gsnsp.com/sweating-sic...
💙📚 Catherine Parr was married four times, which makes her the most married queen consort in English history. #TudorHistory
#CatherineParr
#HenryVIII
#RoyalHistory
#QueensOfEngland
📚💙 She now had precedence over all the other ladies at court and was of a sufficiently high status to be presented to the French king as Henry's future wife. #AnneBoleyn #HenryVIII #TudorHistory #history #historyfact
💙📚 Thomas Cromwell was Henry's most influential minister during the 1530s.
He was appointed Henry's vicar-general of the church in January 1535.
Cromwell is shown here wearing the Order of the Garter, in a painting after Holbein the Younger. #HisFic #TudorHistory #ThomasCromwell #HenryVIll #books
💙📚 On 13th of March 1591, William Tyrwhitt attempted to escape from the Tower of London. He was quickly recaptured and remained imprisoned for several more years.
#TudorHistory #TowerOfLondon #ElizabethI #HistoryFact #booksworthreading
Anne Boleyn didn’t seduce Henry VIII.
His own love letters show the opposite, a king chasing a woman who kept saying no.
So why do people keep calling her a seductress?
#AnneBoleyn #HenryVIII #TudorHistory
💙📚 In 1534, pirate Alice Tankerville tried to escape from the Tower of London. A warder, John Bawd, smuggled her a rope hidden in sewing supplies. The rope snapped and she fell into the moat. Both were recaptured. Both were executed.
#TudorHistory #TowerOfLondon #OnThisDay #HistoryNerd #KU
Born on 10 March 1536, Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, later tried to escape the Tower through a privy shaft to escape execution. It did not go well.
#TudorHistory #OnThisDay #ElizabethanHistory #ThomasHoward
#HistoryFact
A young woman. A doomed queen. A dangerous court.
Step inside the final days of Anne Boleyn in:
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✮ ( ¸.•´✶ The Light in the Labyrinth
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Discover more:
maryanneyarde.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-... 🌹
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🚨 THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE 🚨 Stop judging #MaryQueenOfScots by Elizabeth’s rulebook. 👑📜 @drlindaporter.bsky.social explains why comparing these two queens is far more misleading than enlightening. Time to rethink.
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