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Couple of Tudor related programs in the New Year

I’ve been holding off on posting about this first one until I got a little more information on it. It’s called “The Madness of Henry VIII” and will be on the National Geographic Channel starting on Sunday, January 8th. Click the link to go to their site to search for times and replay dates. Here’s a short description of the program:

“This portrait of the larger-than-life Tudor monarch uses recreations and remarks by experts to explore how the mercurial Henry manipulated people around him, including his six wives.”

If you search, you’ll also see in the results the Mysteries of the Deep episode with the Mary Rose as a bonus Tudor program!

The other program is one that has already aired in the UK, but will be coming to the US (and Canada?) in 2006. I was watching something or another on HBO a few days ago and saw a montage of shows coming in 2006 and saw a snippet of the Elizabeth I program starring Helen Mirren. I don’t have info on exact dates yet, but I’ll post them when I find out more.

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Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!

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Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists

This came in the day I left for Ohio… sorry it’s taken me a while to post it. Things were a bit busier than I expected this week!

Royals of England: A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists [ISBN 0-595-37312-7], by Kathleen Spaltro and Noeline Bridge, will be available through iUniverse’s extensive worldwide distribution network, which includes barnesandnoble.com and amazon.com. It will also be available by order at Barnes and Noble bookstores.

Royals of England offers lively biographies of royal personages that accompany detailed accounts of geographic sites and websites. Placed in chronological order, each profile can easily be read as a self-contained narrative. With the information provided by authors Kathleen Spaltro and Noeline Bridge, you’ll be able to design a tour around a royal person of interest or search out all the royal persons associated with a certain locale. Fifty family trees, one or more for most chapters, help you identify members of different royal houses. You’ll be able to determine how the Jacobite Pretenders passed their claim to the Kings of Sardinia, or how Lettice Knollys, wife to Leicester and mother to Essex, was related to Elizabeth I. Royals of England provides a useful resource for history enthusiasts, travelers, and genealogists alike.

The section on the Tudors begins with Catherine of Valois and Owen Tudor and their sons Edmund and Jasper. The next chapter discusses Edmund’s wife Margaret Beaufort. There is also a separate chapter on the Six Queens of Henry VIII.

Sincerely,

Kathleen Spaltro
Spaltro Editorial Services
kathleen.spaltro@gmail.com

Coauthor, Royals of England:
A Guide for Readers, Travelers, and Genealogists

Editor, Genealogy and Indexing

Traveling Dec. 14-20

I’ll be traveling one the above dates, but I will have internet access most of the time. I’ll try to post any interesting articles that may come along during that time, but there might be some delays. Gotta get that present shopping finished too…

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More on Westminster Abbey finds

There were a few more articles over the past few days about the discovery of Edward the Confessor’s tomb under the Cosmati pavement in Westminster Abbey:

From the Telegraph
From CNN

(original links have expired and have been removed)

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Ancient Royal Tomb at Westminster Abbey

Not strictly Tudor, but interesting!

From the BBC:

Experts believe they have uncovered the tomb of England’s King Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey. Archaeologists using radar have also discovered a series of royal tombs dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries in under-floor chambers.

The discoveries were made as experts investigated the construction of the Abbey’s 13th-century mosaic pavement.

See the rest of the article at the link above.

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