Year: 2017

Maria de Salinas, a True Friend

January 1, 2017kyra 1 Comment

On New Year’s Day of 1536 Maria de Salinas, Lady Willoughby, breached Kimbolton manor house to be with her dearest fried, Katherina of Aragon, as the former queen lay dying. Maria de Salinas is one of my favorite people of the Tudor era because few people of any time period have ever shown the unswerving… Read more Maria de Salinas, a True Friend

Elizabeth Stuart, The Winter Queen of Bohemia

January 1, 2017kyra 2 Comments

Elizabeth Stuart was the eldest daughter of James VI King of Scots (future King James I of England and Ireland as well after the death of Queen Elizabeth I ), and his wife, Anne of Denmark. She was the granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, and like her grandmother she was famed for her beauty… Read more Elizabeth Stuart, The Winter Queen of Bohemia