Riding and Riding Apparel for women in Tudor and Elizabethan England
August 22, 2022
— a post prompted by watching the Starz TV series Becoming Elizabeth
August 2022 brought quite a heatwave to Devon. It was far too hot to work in my attic-room office, so I took some time off to binge-watch the Starz TV series Becoming Elizabeth. Set in the years immediately following the death of King Henry VIII, it concentrates on the relationship between the young princess Elizabeth and the charismatic but dangerous Thomas Seymour. I often find TV dramatisations disappointing but, despite having …