November 2017 Tudor Life – Ladies-in-waiting

Here is the full version of our 80-page November edition of Tudor Life Magazine. This month we focus on Tudor Ladies-in-waiting and our expert contributors have really enjoyed writing about their favourite women...

We are also thrilled to have an excerpt from Leanda de Lisle's new book "The White King". Thank you Leanda!

• Bessie Blount: Lady-in-Waiting by Susan Abernethy
• A day in the life of Damascin Stradling by Gareth Russell
• Catherine Gordon, “Duchess of York”, would-be-queen, and lady-in-Waiting by Lauren Browne
• England’s Ladies-in-Waiting during the late middle ages by Debra Bayani
• Bess of Hardwick by Kyra C. Kramer
• Maids of no honour: Ladies-in-waiting of Tudor TV and film by Emma Elizabeth Taylor
• The queens and their ladies by Conor Byrne
• Imagining María de Salina by Wendy J. Dunn
• Extract from The Raven’s Widow by Adrienne Dillard
• The Queen and the Last Boleyn EXCLUSIVE by Leanda de Lisle
• Book Review of Young and Damned and Fair: Gareth Russell by Charlie Fenton
• Tudor Society Members’ PHoto Competition Entries
• Windsor Castle Photo Montage by Tim Ridgway
• 14 questions about Ladies-in-Waiting by Catherine Brooks
• The Tudor Housewife: Pregnancy by Toni Mount
• From the Spicery: On Cheese by Rioghnach O’Geraghty
• November’s On this Day in Tudor History by Claire Ridgway