Gareth Russell
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Historian and author. Latest book: THE PALACE: FROM THE TUDORS TO THE WINDSORS, 500 YEARS OF HISTORY AT HAMPTON COURT.
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Before you say “his brothers-in-law...” and betray your wilful ignorance of history, do remember Prince Philip fought the Nazis and has thus contributed more to the fight against fascism than anyone behind their keyboard ever will.
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Historians, can we please stop using “English” as interchangeable with “British”?
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@halfadams
This is from The Duchess of Sussex’s own website, in which she states she and her husband “deeply believe in The Monarchy”...
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George VI asked Cecil Beaton to give Queen Elizabeth’s photos a Winterhalter vibe. I have a feeling there may be a nod to the QM in the Duchess of Cambridge’s new official photo; back to Winterhalter, via Beaton and Bowes-Lyons.
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I chatted with Rebecca Cope for
@BritishVogue
about Fabergé, Prince William, Queen Alexandra, and the Duchess of Sussex.
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🇬🇧 and 🇮🇪 cover for my new book, out here on 17th August - “The Palace: From Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court.”
Lord Hervey’s scorching, be-powdered, and be-wigged putdowns of everyone who so much as breathed near him in the 1730s (Lord Archibald
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My goal for any evening out is to experience the same level of joy as
@MeghanMcCain
when she sang along to every word of “Xxpen$ive” by RH Erika Jayne.
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@MarieAnnUK
My favourite moment is when the Crown Princess of Sweden turns her head with an encouraging smile that freezes politely on her face as she realises she’s just witnessed a silent scream.
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The future Queen Mother with her daughter Princess Margaret (right) and future Elizabeth II (left).
The photograph was an ‘outtake’ from a formal photographer’s session in the early 1930s.
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It’s not my *most* impartial historical comment, but when you’re standing in Anne Boleyn’s childhood home and you’re fired an unexpected Q in the Q&A, these kind of things will be said.
“Going from
#AnneBoleyn
to Jane Seymour is like going from a glass of champagne 🥂 to a glass of milk 🥛”
😂😂😂
Quote by Historian & Author, Gareth Russell
@garethrussell1
- I warmly recommend his magnificent blogs on the last days of AB in the
#ToL
:
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#OTD
in 1542, Catherine Howard, the former queen, was beheaded at the Tower of London. She was about 19 years old. Also executed was her lady-in-waiting Jane Boleyn, Dowager Viscountess Rochford.
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Editing a chapter on Charles II’s court and, whilst not usually prudish, I feel the need to bathe.
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“I don’t know why you’re celebrating a usurper who stole the throne from a true king.” (Comment on my mentioning that Henry VII died OTD in 1509).
What do you say to that? “You’re right - Richard III famously won his crown in a raffle.”
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If Charles III wants to finish what Charles I started, today would be a great day to try it.
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It is 🇺🇸 and 🇨🇦 publication day for my book, “The Palace”!
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"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." - 2 Timothy, 4:7.
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Being referred to as devastatingly charming by an account called Whores of Yore is the peak of my year. (I thought betwixt the sheets was my favourite historical sex pun until this.)
Today on
#BetwixtTheSheets
, I am thrilled to be talking to the devastatingly charming
@garethrussell1
about his new book on the scandalous history of Hampton Court.
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Today I ate a “family” Galaxy Honeycomb bar for breakfast and finished the first draft MS of my next book. They were not unrelated.
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Thank you to everyone who sent messages on Dad’s passing. He was a brilliant gentleman, husband, and father - and I know I shall miss him every day for the rest of my life.
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Anne Boleyn - she could offer hard-hitting politics, theological debates, fashion tips, an amazing travel diary, with the occasional subtweet and shade for DAYS. Also the occasional humble brag where she deliberately left it obscure if she was at Hampton (Court) or (East) Hampton
What famous dead person would have the best Twitter account if they were still alive?
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Morning Christmas carols in Hampton Court’s Basse Court. ❤️
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This remains one of my favourite six wives of Henry VIII assessments.
Because people keep asking me for actual personality types based on Henry VIII’s wives, here you go:
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I hate whoever let an 8hr YouTube video that was an ASMR (winter cottage with fireplace for SLEEPING) be interrupted at the 3hr mark by an ad for the latest movie about demonic possession. I was roused from sleep by the whispered words “Is Gabriel your imaginary friend, sweetie?”
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The cat is out of the bag 😀 - and I am very excited that this will be my next book!
"Gareth Russell has been collecting stories about the Queen Mother for two decades and there is warmth and laugh-out-loud moments on every page of the book",
@WmCollinsBooks
signs
@garethrussell1
's 101 stories of Queen Mother, Do Let's Have Another Drink!
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Re-reading “The King is Dead” by
@sixteenthCgirl
- and thinking, again, that a drama about the final months of Henry’s life, and the hideously fraught dangers as his life unravelled, could be incredible. Rosamund Pike for Katherine Parr and Erin Doherty as Mary Tudor, please.
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The banning of taking photos at Auschwitz is long, LONG overdue. Before lockdown, queues were forming to take photos because teens and tourists were climbing up to take selfies on objects that survive as relics of unimaginable suffering.
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Me, emerging from a deadline to my family and friends.
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What is your favourite performance of a historical character?
Mine might be either Merle Oberon or Geneviève Bujold as Anne Boleyn.
(Or Norma Shearer as Marie-Antoinette or Alec Guinness as Charles I.)
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Filming today at Hever Castle discussing “Do Let’s Have Another Drink” and the re-curation of the castle’s beautiful Drawing Room and Great Hall to reflect its house parties in the Roaring 20s!
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My book "The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court" is out now.
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Currently re-reading this absolute corker of a book by
@LeandadeLisle
- constantly in my top 5 favourite historical reads
#elizabethi
#houseofstuart
#maryqueenofscots
#jamesi
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If you don’t think Sister Michael speaks as the Greatest Comedy voice in 600 years, you’re dead inside.
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Very happy to say that I'll be appearing at Hever Castle's first History Festival this year, co-organised by
@DrOwenEmmerson
and
@hevercastle
. I'll be talking about my book "The Palace" (and its links to the Boleyns) on 20th August. Cannot wait.
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Diana Spencer’s fascination with Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard’s love letters, public castrations, and Edward IV’s elopement - there was a lot to enjoy in “The Tudors in Love” by Sarah Gristwood. My review in today’s Times
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“My Lyra is not public property, she is my youngest child, my daughter, who has been murdered publicly by terrorists – none of whom have been caught – and my family and I are beyond heart-broken. The News Letter ought to be ashamed." - The Mother of
#LyraMcKee
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Thank you so much to everyone for their kind words about my next book - about Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Very excited to share this - the 🇺🇸 cover for “Do Let’s Have Another Drink,” out on November 1st, and available for pre-order!
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I love this photo of the Kaiser’s daughter-in-law, Crown Princess Cecilia, with her daughters. Princess Alexandrine (cuddling her mother) had
#DownSyndrome
. In defiance of contemporary support for institutionalisation, Alexandrine was included in official photos & family life.1/2
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Sharon Kay Penman (1945-2021) was a brilliant historical novelist, kind, gracious, and ferociously intelligent. Her novels about the Anarchy, medieval Wales, Outremer, Richard III, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Thomas Becket were unashamedly epic in scope yet achingly personal
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Beautiful portrait of Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales, future Queen consort and Elizabeth II’s great-grandmother. (By Winterhalter)
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Will exhuming the “princes’” remains in Westminster Abbey solve anything? If they’re Edward V & his bro., Ricardians can say that it still doesn’t prove R’s complicity. If it isn’t them, his critics can argue they were killed on R’s orders and their bodies dumped somewhere else
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I had a brilliant time recording the Catherine Howard episode in the Haunted Gallery, after the palace closed for the night, with
@TracyBorman
The six Tudor Queens who married Henry VIII all had one man in common - but each had interesting lives in their own right.
This
#WomensHistoryMonth
explore what they might have been like as women in their own time, listen to our podcast:
📷
@NPGLondon
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This was one of the moments in my career that I will cherish the most. Talking with
@TracyBorman
about Queen Catherine Howard in the Gallery at Hampton Court said to be haunted by Catherine's ghost, after the palace was closed to the public.
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A dream of a new cover for the paperback edition of DO LET’S HAVE ANOTHER DRINK, my book about the Queen Mother, which is out now in paperback!
@WmCollinsBooks
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So, so excited for the new “Becoming Anne” exhibition
@hevercastle
, curated by the brilliant
@DrOwenEmmerson
and
@kateemccaffrey
. I’ve heard so much about what’s gone into it and it sounds exciting, clever, and thought-provoking.
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“No-one wants to get vaccinated in the middle of the night.” Yeah, you’re right - we’re all prioritising our beauty sleep before day 300 of going f*ing nowhere. I will take the vaccine at 4 in the morning, if needs be.
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I am full of admiration for
@RachelRileyRR
and her campaign against the terrifying, undeniable rise in anti-Semitism. I am also crushed by the most depressing tweet of this miserable, vicious year.
@MathsWinstanley
thank you. Sadly, the worst abuse I’ve had was after posting an anti-AS video with footage of Auschwitz. Worrying times ❤️😔
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“Why Edward VI had the makings of a monster HistoryExtra” - great article by
@TracyBorman
. Frankly, E6 always vaguely reminded me of a guy in school who put handwritten Bible verses in our pencil cases. & not the fun ones but your Jeremiah, Leviticus, Job
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Queen Catherine Howard’s downfall at Hampton Court - read an exclusive extract from my new book “The Palace”
@TandCmag
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🇬🇧 and 🇮🇪 copies of my next book are here! Out 13th October - “Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother”. With
@HarperCollinsUK
and
@HCinIreland
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I am delighted to be working with the same wonderful publishers as I did with Catherine Howard and Titanic for my next book - “The Palace by the River: The Rise and Fall of an Empire at Hampton Court.” Considering writing it, throughout, whilst wearing a periwig.
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I am so touched by this review from
@thetudortimes
- especially what it says about the book’s coverage of the ways Hampton Court impacted Ireland.
Just finished The Palace, by
@garethrussell1
Read our review here Spoiler alert - it's a cracker!
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Deborah Cadbury’s “The Lost King of France” is a harrowingly good example of historical non-fiction. I first read it, aged 17, and it traumatised me. It’s a gem of a book - I thought about it today with so many online posts for the anniversary of Marie-Antoinette’s execution
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Very few royal portraits have generated as much controversy as this of Marie-Antoinette by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun in 1783.
Some did not like the Queen being painted by a female artist. By dressing so simply, she was accused of indecency. In wearing linen, she was accused of
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From the moment I read about the Norwich Cathedral visit of Elizabeth I - in
@Regina_Saba
’s “Among the Wolves of Court” - I wanted to see it on screen.
@KaisaHammarlund
and Richard Curson Smith dramatised that beautifully in
#TheBoleyns
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One week to go! Very proud to have been a part of this
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The moment Marie-Antoinette’s name is invoked in a piece of modern journalism, usually a politically commentary, please spare a thought for the historians across the globe flinching into their morning cornflakes and hissing, “She never said it.”
#Marieantoinette
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My article in today's Sunday Times discussing James VI & I, his lover the Duke of Buckingham, and the new hit TV show "Mary & George"
@thetimes
@WmCollinsBooks
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My book "The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court" out now in hardback, ebook, and audio.
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Squealing, unhinge demented joy for my friend
@emeraldfennell
- who is 100% funnier than I am.
Emerald Fennell will play Camilla Shand in The Crown Season Three.
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A very happy Easter to all celebrating! As Lent is over, if anybody needs me I shall be eating bread. All of it.
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My piece in The Sunday Times - on royal health, secrecy, privacy, and the body politic.
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If we could also stop putting the phrase “but she was also ambitious” in the negative/caveat descriptions of people like Anne Boleyn, Hatshepsut, Catherine II, Elizabeth Woodville, Bette Davis, Agatha Christie, Margaret Beaufort, etc, that would be great, too.
If we could stop referring to historical women with opinions as sassy or feisty that would be grand 👌👌
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My interview in today’s
@DailyMailUK
discussing “The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family” (
@BBC
, episode 1, Fri 13th, 9 pm)
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I'm incredibly flattered by this - and in what company - thank you!
Books of the Year.
Our authors choose their Books of the Year
Featuring books by
@CatJarman
@garethrussell1
@JohnMcKay68
@MElizabethLowry
@VaseemKhanUK
#booktwitter
#bookrecommendations
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For UK viewers, I'll be in Channel 5's new documentary, "Clarence House: A Royal Residence," this Saturday at 8.30 pm.
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Beautiful photo of the Queen Mother’s sister Lady Rose Bowes-Lyon, who worked as a Red Cross nurse during the Great War and lived in Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951.
You can read more about Lady Rose and Queen Elizabeth in my biography, “Do Let’s Have Another Drink”!
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Happy Publication Day! My book “The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 years of History at Hampton Court” is now officially on sale in Australia with
@HarperCollinsAU
🇦🇺 📚 ❤️
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@marinamaral2
@marinamaral2
Hi! So if you move your eyes down from the funnels on the “Olympic,” you’ll see its promenade deck which has no windows. On the “Titanic,” the same level has windows in the front section. Here is my hideously clumsy marking (Olympic, top).
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A throwback to chatting about the Queen Mother with the BBC in Hever Castle’s Drawing Room.
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Planning to turn up to all future parties wearing a jaunty barely-shoulder cape exactly like a twentysomething Franz Josef.
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Tonight, I planned to make a Konditor and Cook cake. Instead, I somehow conjured 2020 in cooked form. (Warning: gastronomically graphic content). How the fuck did I do this?
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What a portrait! Louise of Lorraine, Queen of France. (No fan of understatement when it came to sartorial matters.)
Louise was Queen of France from 1575 until her husband’s assassination in 1589. Subject to constant rumours about her fertility and health, these ceased when she
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I cannot wait to be talking about Hampton Court and my book "The Palace" at beautiful
@hevercastle
's first ever History Festival, this August!
So proud to be co-curating the very first History Festival at
@HeverCastle
for the
@heverfestival
. We have a truly stellar lineup of speakers and tickets go on sale to the general public on 18th March (sales open now for Festival Friends!)
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“Cromwell killed Anne Boleyn and the other men to get revenge for what they did to his beloved mentor, Cardinal Wolsey.” This morning on “comments that make me want to eat my keyboard”.
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My biography of the Queen Mother is being serialised in the Daily Mail! Read the first extract here!
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Every year, my quest to find cards more medieval or high Church than the ones before becomes trickier. Eventually, it’ll require a selfie, wearing robes like Richard II in the Wilton Diptych, possibly with glitter, while I’m suspended from a drone over the Vatican’s high altar.
What a beautiful Christmas card our castle team received today courtesy of the wonderful
@garethrussell1
- thank you, Gareth! 🎄❤️
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I am so excited to be sharing research on the Anglo-Irish nobility, Anne’s grandmother Margaret, the House of Butler, and how the Boleyns’ links to 200,000 acres shaped both their place in society and the countdown to the Irish constitutional revolution of the 16th century.
The Boleyn Irish ancestry is a vital element of the story. Thomas' mother & grandfather shaped his career, & Anne's pride in her lineage is reflected in her crest-the Butler Falcon. Don't miss
@garethrussell1
's talk as he restores Ireland to the narrative.
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I sat down with "Downton Abbey" star Penelope Wilton to discuss her role as the Queen Mother in the new West End play, "Backstairs Billy". And how she used my book "Do Let's Have Another Drink" for research.
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Of all England’s early modern queens, Jane Seymour was the one I usually found least interesting. Partly because the sources for her life are obviously less numerous than for her predecessors. But she’s at the centre of a chapter in my next book and 1/2 -
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“I want them to still think kindly of me. And maybe make them smile.”
- Betty White (1922-2021), when asked about her legacy.
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@RoyalHistGeeks
I don’t buy him being an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. No English king before or after him publicly executed their wives. They were in equally unusual circumstances to Henry and none of them staged two acts of publicly choreographed uxoricide.
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@KateWilliamsme
Finally! Yes to all of this. The next time a dubious Royal etiquette ‘expert’ is filling up news time pretending the Duchess of Sussex’s wearing of a one-strap gown is the second storming of the Bastille, here’s that noted radical the Queen Mother going without any.
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Mildly terrifying but the last 2 years I have struggled privately with binge-eating and a lot of fairly deep unhappiness. So as nervous as I was, I was flattered to do an interview with Allan Davison about mental health and exercise - and getting better
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My review of “Uncrowned Queen” is in
@TheTimesBooks
today. My inability to pass a Princes in the Tower conspiracy theory without flinching is on full display. As is Tallis’s fine rehabilitation of Margaret Beaufort.
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Trim Castle, County Meath, this morning - a stronghold to the Plantagenets and then the House of York, then the royalist-confederates against Cromwell in the 17th century. One-time meeting spot of the Irish parliaments and sold by the Baron of Dunsany to the Irish state in 1993.
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I was checking some sentences/notes today on Thomas Boleyn’s diplomatic career. Ended up sucked into re-reading 50 pages of
@Regina_Saba
’s fantastic biography of him. For Tudor nuts, it’s a must. A genuinely (convincing) revisionist work.
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For 2022’s quincentennial anniversary of Anne Boleyn’s debut at the English court,
@AnneBoleynFiles
is offering a 7 day series of lectures, including the brilliant
@Regina_Saba
on Thomas Boleyn’s role in her career &
@DrEstellePrnq
on her links to France.
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Say what you like, but tonight’s game would have been an etiquette nightmare for Emma of Normandy.
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Congratulations to
@TracyBorman
on her new book ANNE BOLEYN AND ELIZABETH I. Out this week. I had a chance to see an advance copy and attend Tracy’s first talk on the topic at Hampton Court on release day!
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Thank you so much Aimie! Also, if you’re in London, see “Six”. Howard’s anthem “All You Wanna Do” is amazing and Cleves’ “Get Down” has me crying with laughter!
Queendom if you want to learn more about the wonderful K Howard check out the lovely
@garethrussell1
book.
‘Young and Damned and Fair’
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This week on my podcast, I'm joined by the Marquess of Anglesey to discuss his (fascinating) biography of his Tudor ancestor, Sir William Paget - Anne of Cleves' secretary, Henry VIII's adviser, a baron under Edward VI, a supporter of Lady Jane Grey, a councillor to Mary I.
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I took this last year and today I’m working on a chapter about plague at Hampton Court. I don’t adore the marriage of subject and life.
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“The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 years of History at Hampton Court” is out now in hardback, E-book, and audio in 🇬🇧, 🇨🇦, 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇪
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@sixteenthCgirl
@DrFrancesRyan
Every bit of me would love to write back on the higher IQ point by correcting each of his spelling mistakes.
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