Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts has just
opened a new exhibition featuring portraits from as recent as
Princes William and Harry to as far back as the Tudors. The 150
images span over five centuries as was created in partnership with
the National Portrait Gallery in London which lent a number of
portraits that have never been seen in the United States. The
exhibition’s co-curator David…
The art dealer and BBC Historian Philip
Mould has discovered what could be the earliest full-length
portrait of Elizabeth I as Queen. The painting is currently on
display at 18-19 Pall Mall after being restored. Art historians and
critics have been amazed by the painting…
Queen Elizabeth I famously died a virgin,
but her life was not always without romance. Before being crowned
Queen in 1558, she was involved with Robert Dudley who was her
master of the horse. Dudley was the Queen’s favourite, and it was
suggested that the pair would have…
“That’s the tomb of Queen Elizabeth the
First”; this was the remark I heard when I last visited Henry VII’s
Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey. These words –unquestionably
correct – confirm that here was the tomb of ‘Gloriana’ – England’s
Queen Elizabeth I, only this is not the entire story. You could be
forgiven for thinking that…
In the early modern period, the allure of
court life was more than desirable, which caused families to seek
positions that were in service of the crown. It has been said that
to be around a king and his court was like being next to the sun,
but when away it was only…
Emma Thompson is set to portray Queen
Elizabeth I in the second season of the popular Shakespearian
comedy, Upstart Crow to air on BBC2 later this year. Just this
week, the show was named best new TV sitcom at the comedy.co.uk
awards. This isn’t the first historical…
One hotel in Northamptonshire preserves a
possibly extraordinaryfeature within its walls. The Talbot Hotel in
Oundle is located some thirteen miles outside Peterborough and is
aten-minutedrive from Fotheringhay. It preserves the staircase
which is traditionally believed to be the one down which Mary Queen
of Scots walked to her execution in 1587. The scene was painted as
it…
The Manor House in Knowle, Solihull once
had Elizabeth I as an overnight guest and the house can now be
yours for the small sum of £2,000,000. The “Darnley Portrait”
of Elizabeth I of England The house is suited for quite a large
family and has on the…
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On 17 November 1558 England’s first
undisputed Queen regnant, Mary I, died, paving the way for the
accession of her half-sister Elizabeth I. Mary had been a
staunch Roman Catholic and she had been determined to bring England
back to what she believed to be the true faith. Her short reign and
early death ended her ambitions of re-establishing Roman
Catholicism in England and she reluctantly…
