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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You can find Claire at:
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June 8 - Elizabeth Woodville
June 7 - A water pageant for Jane Seymour
June 6 - Trouble brews in Bodmin
June 5 - Maria de Salinas, Catherine of Aragon's friend
June 4 - Lightning strikes St Paul's
June 3 - The Royal Supremacy
June 2 - Queen Jane Seymour
June 1 - Christopher Marlowe's death and inquest
May 31 - Henry VIII's annulment and a special Blackfriars court
May 30 - Knights of the Bath for Anne Boleyn's coronation
May 29 - John Penry and his scandalous writings
May 28 - The Spanish Armada sets sail
May 27 - Margaret Pole's botched execution
May 26 - Henry VIII and Charles V meet
May 25 - A great shaking of the ground - a Tudor earthquake
May 24 - The Life of Anne Askew
May 23 - Elizabeth the prisoner, "Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be"
May 22 - New Garter Knights
May 21 - 81-year-old Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
May 20 - A cardinal’s hat for a headless man
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