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The Rise and Fall of Tudor England’s Scandalous Boleyn Family

Mary Boleyn (right) served as Henry VIII's mistress before her sister Anne's (left) ascent to the throne. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When Anne Boleyn, the worldly, charismatic daughter of a ...
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Amateur Historians Unearth a Long-Lost Tudor Palace Visited by Henry VIII and Elizabeth I

Locals had long shared stories of Collyweston Palace. Then, excavations in England’s Midlands revealed traces of the fabled estate Cool Finds Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History If ...
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How Henry VIII’s grandmother used a palace in Northamptonshire to build the mighty Tudor dynasty

Rachel Delman has been researching Collyweston Palace for over a decade. Her doctoral research on the site was funded by a full Arts and Humanities Research Council award at the University of Oxford ...
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Henry VII: The father of the Tudor dynasty

The Tudors were some of the most compelling, powerful, and disturbing monarchs in history—and they began with an upstart nobody named Henry VII. The father of the Tudor dynasty turned England into a ...