The Tudor Minute

Tudor Minute September 7: Happy Birthday Elizabeth


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Today in 1533 a little girl was born in Greenwich, less than two weeks after her mother had gone into confinement. The parents were so sure that she would be a boy that they already had the announcements made up, and had to change them, adding in an extra S to the word Prince, after she was born. Celebratory jousts were cancelled, because this little girl wasn’t the prince that her father had risked excommunication for.
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The Tudor MinuteBy Heather Teysko