Most popular interview to date and The Anne Boleyn Tour Release dates announced
30th March 2024 History Travel Newsletter
Hello Fellow History Lover!
This week:
The badges and mottoes of the queens of Henry VIII, in this week’s History Tea Time Chat Live
**ANNOUNCEMENT**: Release dates for The Anne Boleyn Tour, 16-20 May 2025
My most popular interview to date is now live on Youtube! - Click Here for my interview with Nathan Amin ahead of his new biography on Henry VII.
Miss The Stuarts 2024 Online History Festival?
Last week:
Elizabeth I’s final days
The betrayal and murder of an Anglo Saxon boy king, Edward the Martyr
Archbishop Cranmer carried out his final, and gruesome, promise
Click Here to read last week’s newsletter.
With 2000 views in the first 48hours, my interview with Nathan Amin is proving to be the most popular interview to date on my channel and deservedly so. In this 1hour 20 minute interview Nathan takes us into some startling and less well known facts about Henry Tudor’s story, not least that his name wasn’t actually Tudor!
Missed The Stuarts Online History Festival? No fear!
Last Sunday The Stuarts Online history Festival ended with a 90 minute live Q&A session with all six of our speakers followed by a closing, just-for-fun, quiz at which we drew the winners of our free prize draw to win free tickets, amazon vouchers and signed books!
If you had a ticket but couldn’t make the talks, they are all available via the eventbrite page until 31st May.
If you didn’t have a ticket or, would like the talks for ever then I have bundled them up and made them available to purchase as one package. Simply click here, or on the image below.
The Autumn Online History Festival is already on sale!
Last Few Early Bird Tickets available
Early Bird Tickets - £18.00 (Full Price Tickets - £21.50) Click Here
Patreon Tickets - £18.00 Click Here
The Mottoes and Badges of the Queens of Henry VIII
Katherine of Aragon
Married to Henry for around 24 years and was crowned with him in a joint coronation on 24th June 1509 at Westminster Abbey.
Anne Boleyn
Married to Henry for 3 years and was crowned at her own coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey, already pregnant with the future Elizabeth I, on 1st June 1533.
Jane Seymour
Married to Henry on 30th May 1536, 14 days after her predecessor was executed. She died 17 months into the marriage following the birth of Henry’s long awaited son Edward.
Anna of Cleves
The only one of Henry’s wives which he hadn’t met prior to the marriage contract. The marriage was annulled after only six months. Anna outlived Henry and all of his other wives and is the only one of them to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Catherine Howard
Married to Henry for 19 months. She was condemned by a Bill of Attainder and executed at the Tower of London. Her beheading was by axe, not the sword afforded her late cousin, Anne Boleyn.
Katherine Parr
Married to Henry for 3 year and 6 months, until his death. She was the Goddaughter and namesake of Henry’s first wife. According to the rhyme she was the wife who ‘survived.’ However, Katherine’s reformist beliefs had made her some enemies at court and a warrant was created for her arrest. She avoided arrest but only by managing to get to Henry first and pleading for mercy. She survived him by only one and half years, dying following the birth of her first and only child, by her fourth husband Thomas Seymour, at Sudeley Castle.
Listen to Tea Time History Chat Live
Or, you can watch this episode on the British History Youtube channel
The Anne Boleyn Tour 2025 will be on sale soon!
with Historian, Gareth Russell
Tour Dates: 16th - 20th May 2025
To members of the British History Patreon - Tuesday 9th April
On general sale - Tuesday 16th April
Click Here to see this year’s itinerary.
Look out in Patreon, in this newsletter and on social media for the launch!
I hope you’ll catch me live this week talking about Arthur Tudor, around the anniversary of his untimely death in 1502! Join me on Wednesday 2nd April at 3pm (UK time) on Facebook, Youtube and Instagram. Don’t worry if you can’t make it live because you can always catch up on those channels or on the podcast. If you’re subscribed to me here you will receive a notification when a new podcast is available.
Have a great week!
Philippa