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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May 2 - Celestial flesh leads to a burning
May 1 - A hot-tempered Tudor courtier
April 30 - Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor
April 29 - Bothwell prepares to marry Mary, Queen of Scots
April 28 - A man involved in the falls of two queens
April 27 - A Tudor and Stuart adventurer
April 26 - Shakespeare and the plague
April 25 - Catherine Parr publishes a book
April 24 - Divining your future love
April 23 - George Boleyn loses out
April 22 - Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland
April 21 - The Philosopher's Stone offered to Elizabeth I
April 20 - Lady Mary Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey
April 19 - Mary, Queen of Scots gets betrothed
April 18 - Eustace Chapuys bumps into Anne Boleyn
April 17 - St Henry Walpole
April 16 - A fortune from drinkable gold
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