Once upon a time in history

Francis Willoughby Francis Willoughby (1547-96) was the youngest child of Henry Willoughby (d.1549) and Anne Grey (d.1548). Francis'...

Frances Cavendish (1548-1632) married Henry Pierrepont (1546-1615) before 1568 and the couple went on to have six children; + Robert Pierre...

Margaret Wotton (1487- 1541) was the mother of Henry Grey (1517-54), the future father of Queen Jane Grey, by her second husband Thomas Gre...

Anne Dormer  (1525-1603) became the second wife of Walter Hungerford (1526-96) in May 1558 and the couple had four children; Susan (b.1564),...

King Henry VIII, 1542 In February 1542, even before the death of Queen Katherine Howard on the 13th of that month, it appears that King...

Elizabeth Darrell, born around 1513, was the youngest daughter of Edward Darrell, Chamberlain to Queen Catherine of Aragon, and his third wi...

Thomas Cromwell Jane Cromwell was the illegitimate daughter of King Henry VIII's right hand man Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540). Jane w...