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13 articles matching “Thomas Howard”
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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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He sent his niece to the block in 1536. He sent another niece to the block in 1542. He survived both. Thomas Howard always did.
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Mary was twenty-eight and had spent more than three years as a prisoner in England. Now the man who spoke for her was about to lose his own freedom.
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Anne Howard sent medicines to her dying husband in the Tower of London. She was not allowed to see him. Twenty-nine years after his death, she would arrange for him to leave it.
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Thomas Wolsey made two dukes go back to the king before he would surrender the Great Seal. He could still require the proper authority for his removal. He could no longer prevent it.
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She spent years arranging her son’s marriage to a queen. When it finally happened, she was a prisoner in the Tower of London.
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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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He was quite possibly richer than the king, older in blood than the king, and considerably more careful about saying so. He was not careful enough.
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They had never met. He sent her a diamond. She sent him an embroidered pillow. On the first of July 1569 Norfolk wrote that he had gone too far to stop.
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On 15 June 1519, Henry VIII finally got the son his marriage had not produced. The boy was healthy. The mother was not his queen.
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She exchanged rings with a man in secret and Henry VIII put him in the Tower. He died there. She walked out and went back to court and spent the next forty years reaching for the crown that had killed him.
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She ran a household where grown men crept into the girls' dormitory at night. She knew. She burned the evidence before anyone could take it from her.