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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...

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...

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,...

Lady Katherine Grey was the second of the ill-fated Grey sisters. Her elder sister, Lady Jane Grey, was executed for being a pawn in an attempt to subvert the Tudor succession, and Katherine's royal...

Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, lived a dangerous, and action-packed life. Niece of Henry VIII, she was both aunt and mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots. Her determination to promote...

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...

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...

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...

Sir James Melville is little known today, but he lived a life at the heart of Anglo-Scottish politics in the second half of the sixteenth century. Son of a traitor, executed for revealing secrets to...

Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley was at Elizabeth I's side from the day she became Queen until his death forty years later. During that period they worked closely together - not always agreeing on...

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...

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...

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...