Tudor Times

1) Every want to decorate your house to look “Tudoresque” with dark panelling, rich fabrics, and stained glass? Funny Portal has posted some good tips and tricks to get the look! Here’s the link.

2) Sadly, Show Time’s The Tudors is coming to an end! Filming for the final season has just wrapped and will be released in April. However, IFTN has interviewed Michael Hirst (writer, director, and creator) and gotten some good perspective on the show, as well as his upcoming drama, Camelot!

Here’s the link.

3) Bonhams is selling two beautiful miniature portraits, one of Elizabeth I and one of Robert Dudley. The two portraits are from about 1557 and are painted by Hilliard. According to Camilla Lombardi, Head of the Portrait Miniature department, “To hold in the palm of your hand a pair of portraits that would have undoubtedly rested in the palm of the hand of the Queen of England five centuries ago is an extraordinary feeling. The intense personal nature of these miniatures, gives you a clear sense of the passionate woman behind the carefully cultivated public image.”

Wow, one can only dream!!! Here’s the link to the full article which has some nice pictures of the portraits.

On Nov. 14, 1501, Catalina, Princess of Aragon was married to Arthur, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of England. The marriage seemed to be a success from the start, with each partner liking the other. However, sadly after only a few months of marriage Arthur was dead. Katherine found herself a widow and lived in poverty until the death of Henry VII and accession of Henry VIII who made her his first wife. Scandalous Women has done a nice write up about the couple and Katherine’s life as a widow here.

Young Katherine

Prince Arthur

I have been terribly neglecting the News Blog! I am sorry! But I am trying to get back into the swing of things now that school has died down a bit

The Battle of Bosworth is the beginning marker for the Tudor dynasty. It is where Henry Tudor (later VII) won the English crown from Richard III. Below I have accumulated a number of different articles related to this battle.

Here’s an article about Richard III.

Here is short video from BBC about the Battle site.

Article on how the battle of Bosworth was lost.

There has been recent controversy over the site of the battle, with many archaeologists claiming it is actually 2 miles from the present day “site.” Here are two articles here and here about the moving of the battle site two miles from its present location.

Henry VII who won the battle

And Richard III who lost the battle