Good Gentlewoman Blog posts – Friends of Lydiard Park

Published on: 4th December 2015

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

Published on: 14th January 2015

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

Published on: 4th January 2015

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...

Published on: 28th December 2014

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

Published on: 27th May 2013

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

Published on: 4th September 2012

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

Published on: 8th July 2012

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

Published on: 15th June 2012

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

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