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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July 18 - Queen Jane is betrayed and Queen Mary wins
July 17 - Richard Carew, a multi-talented man
July 16 - The death of Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of Henry VIII
July 15 - The Newbury Martyrs
July 14 - Richard Taverner and his Bible
July 13 - Unease among Queen Jane's councillors
July 12 - Men flock to Mary's cause and Jane makes a mistake
July 11 - Men change sides from Queen Jane to Mary
July 10 - The Throckmorton Plot against Elizabeth I
July 9 - Mary wants to avoid bloodshed and vengeance
July 8 - Thomas Boleyn's important duty
July 7 - William Turner, Father of English botany
July 6 - The execution of Sir Thomas More
July 5 - Sir Thomas More's last letter
July 4 - Gregory Cromwell - who was he?
July 3 - Pretender Perkin Warbeck lands
July 2 - Thomas Boleyn's loss is Cromwell's gain
July 1 - Sir Thomas More is found guilty
June 30 - A mortal head wound for a jousting King of France
June 29 - Henry Percy, sweetheart of Anne Boleyn
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