Tudor portraits

Portraits of 16th century ladies by Richard Burchett 1815–1875) at Palace of Westminster

Queen Elizabeth I

Lady Jane Grey (1537-1554). Jane was nominal Queen of England for just nine days in 1553, as part of an unsuccessful bid to prevent the accession of the Catholic Mary Tudor.

The remarkable life of Henry VIII’s last Queen

Mary Tudor was the daughter of Henry VIII and his wife Katherine of Aragon. She was born in 1516 and was their only surviving child. After many years of

Portrait of Elizabeth of York (1466-1503), half-length, holding a white rose

(c) National Trust, Nostell Priory; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation

As I have been working my way through the Tudor era I have been doing further research on the puzzling white band that appears in many early Tudor portraits. The result is this rather long post. I …

A remarkable number of the Tudors had ‘red-gold’ hair. Though the largest proportion of red hair in the world comes from Scotland, Ireland, and Teutonic countries, it can show up anywhe…

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Tudor Dresses wiki 1400s fashion Bold pomegranate- or artichoke-patterned silks are characteristic of the 15th century, as are richly coloured velvets and woolens

I thought that I would write about the six wives and the various stereotypes, labels, myths and falsehoods which surround them by handling each wife in turn,

1574 -The Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (1554-1592). She was a daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II and his wife, The Infanta María of the Spains Archduchess of Austria. She was Queen of France (1570-1574) as the wife of King Charles IX. She had no surviving children.

Uncover the secrets in this contemporary, 16th century painting of Edward VI, the ill-fated boy-king of England by artist, William Scrots.

Marie Queen of Scots

Tudor and Elizabethan rings from National Portrait Gallery

Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and half-sister to Mary I. The painting is attributed to William Scrots and was painted in the last years of Henry’s reign. This was painted at a time when Elizabeth and her sister enjoyed a friendly relationship, prior the days when it would become incredibly strained on grounds of religion and politics (and to some degree parentage).