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Henry VIII's Northern Progress of 1541 and Catherine Howard
Henry had travelled north intending to demonstrate his absolute power. His wife accompanied him. So did her lover.
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Elizabeth Stafford and the Duke of Norfolk: A Decade of Letters, Then Testimony
She refused to leave. So he had her dragged out by the arms. She spent a decade writing letters that nobody acted on. Then the moment came, and she told them everything.
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Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Sixth Wife, Regent and Author
Catherine Parr was already in love with another man when Henry VIII decided he wanted her. She said yes anyway. It was the only way either of them was getting out of it alive.
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Anne of Cleves: The Annulment of July 1540 and the King's Beloved Sister
The French Ambassador reported that Anne of Cleves had collapsed in terror when the men arrived and told her that her marriage no longer existed. The men sent to inform her said she took the news without any change of expression. She knew exactly what had happened to the wives who had fought him.
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Anne of Cleves Sees Her Replacement Coming, June 1540
His wife had been watching for weeks. She finally wrote to her ambassador about what she could see. Four days later Henry VIII sent her away.
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Thomas Cromwell's Letters from the Tower, June–July 1540
He had spent ten years deciding who went to the Tower. On the tenth of June 1540 he found out what it felt like from the other side. He already knew exactly what it meant.
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George Boleyn: Poet, Diplomat, and the Sentence He Read Aloud
He was a poet, a diplomat, and the most trusted male voice in his sister's court. Henry VIII sent him to France to negotiate with kings.
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Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk: The Marriage Proposal That Led to Tower Hill
The most powerful nobleman in England raised a reasonable proposal with the Queen's own council. Elizabeth did not find it reasonable. She found it useful, which is a different thing entirely.
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Katherine Grey: The Secret Marriage and the Tower
Katherine Grey was twenty years old, eight months pregnant, and standing outside Robert Dudley's bedroom in the middle of the night asking him to help her. She had a secret husband, a missing marriage certificate, and a cousin on the throne who would never forgive her for any of it. She had done nothing except fall in love at the wrong time and with the wrong man. She was trapped in the wrong body. It was a body that carried royal blood she had never asked for and could not give back.
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Elizabeth I: The Last of Henry VIII's Children
She was the last of them. Every other child Henry VIII had wanted, made, or broken was dead before she took the throne. She had survived them all by learning, very young, that need was the thing that killed you.