Anne Boleyn is the historians’ favourite, but her cousin Katherine has the...
Headless ladies are always good for business, so I was delighted to see a paperback edition of Professor George Bernard’s book on Anne Boleyn recently. The back cover has a quote from the laudatory...
View ArticleThe Wars of the Roses must not be rebranded as the Cousins’ War
On Sunday the BBC drama The White Queen concluded in the United States. It will provide a massive boost to the sales of Philippa Gregory’s Cousins’ War series of novels. This would be fine by me if it...
View ArticleThe upcoming exhibition that can save us from Tudor mania
Cornelius Johnson is not a household name, and I confess that I had never heard of him, until just now. A contemporary of van Dyke, he was court painter to the unfortunate Charles I, and is soon to be...
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