henry VIII

  • The Naughty Side of History: Medieval Swear Words

    All my life I’ve heard people say: “What is this, the Middle Ages?” or “It feels like we’ve gone back to the Middle Ages,” whenever they want to comment on something absurd that makes us regress so much we turn into barbarians, puritans, God-fearing souls destined to die of the plague. And every time I

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  • What happens should already have happened.

    Have you ever felt like you deeply belong to something or someone?Like you’ve already seen an object, or you know someone deeply even though you’ve never truly met?Like you’ve had déjà vu or the feeling of already having been in a place… seen those eyes before, known that voice, even though you’ve never seen that

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  • Elizabeth & Elizabeth: Queens at the edge of a century

    There is something extraordinarily symbolic in the story of Elizabeth of York and her niece, Elizabeth I. Two women, same name, same blood. One at the dawn, the other at the dusk of the Tudor dynasty. And exactly one hundred years lie between them. Elizabeth of York died in 1503. Elizabeth I in 1603. A

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  • Like grandfather, like grandson: The incredible similarities between Edward IV and Henry VIII

    So… sit back and get comfortable, because we all know Henry VIII, right? A big, burly man… red hair… six wives, a split-in-two England, and an appetite for power (and food) that would make any living—or dead—human pale in comparison…? Got the image? Good! But perhaps few remember that before him, there was his grandfather…

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