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Does this good gentlewoman, Lady Katherine Knollys, remind you of anyone? Her mother was Mary Boleyn and her father William...

Keeping one's head in a crisis had a whole different connotation in the 16th century. And the more closely one was related...

Tudor fans this side of he pond are eagerly awaiting the launch of Wolf Hall, a major new BBC drama based on the Man Booker...

Chirk Castle has stood sentinel over the Welsh Marches for more than 700 years, one of a chain of 13th century fortresses...

On this day in 1541 Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury was beheaded at the Tower of London. She was 67 years old and...

You know how it is - you flip through the family photograph album and suddenly you come across that old snap, a woman...

It's tempting to ponder on how differently things might have panned out had Jane Seymour not been on the marriage market in...

The St John family has several close connections with Royalty.  Barbara, Countess of Castlemaine had a whole nursery full...