Tudors & Stewarts 2015 is a collection of twelve Profiles of interesting or influential personalities at the English and Scottish Courts during the sixteenth century. The collection encompasses royalty, nobles and politicians, covering some of the most important events of the century. The Profiles are of Katherine Parr, James IV, Lady Margaret Pole, Cardinal Wolsey, Marie of Guise, Thomas Cromwell, Lady Penelope Devereux, James V, Lady Katherine Grey, Sir William Cecil, Lady Margaret Douglas and Sir James Melville. The inter-relationships between these individuals, which affected the politics...

Lady Penelope Devereux lived a life of romance and intrigue - Sir Philip Sidney's muse, and sister to the ill-fated Earl of Essex, this great-grand-daughter of Mary Boleyn was one of the leading lights of the late Elizabeth and Jacobean age - although she was described by James VI & I as 'a fair woman with a black soul'. ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor Times Insights are ebooks collating articles from our website www.tudortimes.co.uk which is a repository for a wide variety of information about the Tudor and Stewart period 1485 - 1625. There you can find material on People, Places, Daily Life,...

Marie of Guise was whisked from a quiet childhood in a convent to an arranged marriage with a French Prince du Sang at the instigation of Francois I. Widowed within three years, she was obliged to marry again, this time to the widowed James V of Scotland (her other choice being Henry VIII - whom she hastily refused ) Carried off to Scotland, leaving her three-year old son behind, she quickly became an important patron of arts and culture at the Scottish court. Widowed again, 31 year old Marie was left to fight a valiant battle to protect not only the inheritance, but also the life, of her...

James V's life, although short, was action packed. King from the age of eighteen months, he weathered a difficult minority, as Scottish lords around him vied for supremacy in a period when influence within Scotland was bitterly contested between France and England. Taking a firm grip on power at the age of sixteen, James soon showed he was a king to be reckoned with. Concerned with justice, as well as improving crown authority, he still had time to travel to France and bring back new ideas of architecture, embodied in his beautiful palaces of Stirling and Falkland. ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor...

James IV was one of the most successful of all the Kings of Scotland. He expanded the reach of the Crown, began to build a navy, and increased the importance of Scotland in the eyes of Europe. He was also a man of wide-ranging intellectual tastes, who had a grand vision of what he wanted to achieve. Unfortunately, he was cut down in his prime at the bloody field of Flodden, killed by the army of his brother-in-law, Henry VIII of England. ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor Times Insights are ebooks collating articles from our website www.tudortimes.co.uk which is a repository for a wide variety of...

The death of Lady Margaret Pole is famous as one of Henry VIII's more tragic victims. Aged 68, she was executed without trial, in a botched execution on Tower Green. But Lady Margaret was more than just a victim - as a great feudal magnate in her own right, she played a part in the politics of Henry's reign. His mother's cousin, his first wife's friend, and his daughter's governess, Margaret was at the heart of the court. ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor Times Insights are ebooks collating articles from our website www.tudortimes.co.uk which is a repository for a wide variety of information about the...

Katherine Parr was, perhaps, one of Henry VIII's luckier queens. She survived him, and he remained fond of her until the end. Nevertheless, her tenure as the ageing monarch's wife was not easy, and, at one point, she was in serious danger of arrest and perhaps burning, for heresy. As the only one of Henry's wives who had had a life outside royal circles, her story is complex and fascinating. This Profile, from Tudor Times Insights, summarises her life and looks at various important aspects of her personality and tastes, including her religious writings and her relationship with her royal, and...

Cardinal Wolsey was Henry VIII's chief minister for some fifteen years - during that period, he negotiated treaties, organised military campaigns, planned the great spectacle of the Field of Cloth of Gold, and managed Henry's business in Parliament. He also found time to found a school and a college. He was loved by the King, but hated by everyone else, so when he failed to gain the King's divorce, there was no-one to speak for him. This Tudor Times Insight covers all of the main aspects of Wolsey's rise and fall. ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor Times is the place to go for a wide variety of...

Thomas Cromwell has been in the limelight recently, with the huge success of Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize winning Wolf Hall and its television adaptation. This Tudor Times Insight gives a factual outline of Cromwell's life, from his early years, through his time of greatest influence in the 1530s to his downfall in 1540. ABOUT THE SERIES: Tudor Times Insights are ebooks collating articles from our website www.tudortimes.co.uk which is a repository for a wide variety of information about the Tudor and Stewart period 1485 - 1625. There you can find material on People, Places, Daily Life,...