On this day in Tudor history, 12th July 1543, Henry VIII got married for the sixth and final time.
The fifty-two-year-old king married thirty-one-year-old Catherine Parr, Lady Latimer, in the Queen's Closet of the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace.
In today's talk, Claire Ridgway, author of "On This Day in Tudor History", gives a contemporary account of the wedding service, as well as telling us about who attended the ceremony.
You can see this podcast as a video at the following link:
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September 14 - Sir William Kingston, Constable of the Tower of London
September 13 - Tudor poet John Leland
September 12 - The newly married Earl of Argyll dies suddenly
September 11 - Barnaby Fitzpatrick, friend of Edward VI
September 10 - The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh
September 9 - The coronation of Mary, Queen of Scots
September 8 - John Shakespeare, father of William Shakespeare
September 7 - Charles Brandon marries Catherine Willoughby
September 6 - Martin Luther writes to the Pope
September 5 - The death of Bloody Bonner
September 4 - A marriage is agreed between Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves
September 3 - The death of a clown
September 2 - A very wealthy Irish earl dies in the Tower
September 1 - Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn
August 31 - The Bloody Flux
August 30 - The Treaty of the More
August 29 - The Feast of the beheading of St John the Baptist
August 28 - Robert Dudley's last letter to Elizabeth I
August 27 - The Battle of St Quentin
August 26 - A devastated Mary I prepares to be abandoned
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